Contractor Awarded for Regional Distribution Center in Wyoming

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Wal-Mart Stores, Incorporated (NYSE:WMT) (Bentonville, Arkansas), the world’s #1 retailer, has awarded the general construction contract to Walton Construction Company (Ellisville, Missouri) for construction of a grassroot $60 million regional distribution center in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Construction plans consist of building an 850,000 square-foot distribution center in Laramie County to support regional distribution operations. The new center will be located adjacent to Interstate 80 on Round Top Road. Site preparation is currently underway on the new center and building construction is expected to begin in January 2006 with an overall completion date slated for the spring of 2007. Approximately 500 new jobs will be created.

Carter & Burgess, Incorporated, located in Fort Worth, Texas, provided architectural and engineering services for the new center.

Wal-Mart is currently nearing completion of a $70 million perishable goods regional distribution center in Sterling, Illinois. Building construction on this 900,000 square-foot center will be completed in January 2006. Walton Construction Company is also serving as the general contractor for this new center.

Wal-Mart is considered as the world’s #1 retailer with more than $220 billion in annual sales. The company operates more than 5,700 stores, including some 1,350 discount stores, nearly 2,000 combination discount and grocery stores (Wal-Mart Supercenters in all fifty states in the U.S. and ASDA in the UK), and 550 warehouse stores (SAM'S CLUB). Wal-Mart is also the #1 retailer in Canada and Mexico. Currently, the company employs 1.7 million people.

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