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Gray, Inc. Company Updates shouldn't paint your ocean-faring boat yellow. Most Gray Development
importantly, Bill cares about the health and well-being
of every person who works in our office. He was our with Curt Hargrove
President
safety officer long before he held the official title. It's
been a great honor to work with Bill throughout high
school, college, and my early career. I can attribute We’ve had a lot of exciting things happening here
a significant part of my work here to his mentorship at Gray Development since our last update. First,
and companionship." after a year of work to find a site and complete all the
We thank our award recipients for being such an necessary due diligence, we have officially closed
important part of the Spencer Bristol team. on 110 acres of prime real estate right here in our
backyard of Shelbyville, Kentucky. This will be our
Gray Solutions largest development to date and we intend to break
with Walker Mattox ground on the first of three, possibly four buildings
Chief Executive Officer totaling well over 1 million s.f. in May. Although we
have a lot of work left to do I want to give a big thanks 5
to all those who have gotten us to this point!
Gray Solutions continues its growth trajectory Jumping over to the Upstate of South Carolina, the
through talented people and important partnerships. construction of our 400,000 s.f. cross-dock project
Rockwell Automation, the world’s largest company continues to go well despite a harsh winter filled with
dedicated to industrial automation and digital a significant amount of rain. With the winter all but
transformation, recently named Gray Solutions as behind us we look forward to a nice Spring as we
their System Integrator ‘Partner of the Year,’ and get into the critical path of concrete placement and
presented us with the ‘Partner Ecosystem Award.’ steel erection and we hope to have the building done
We were the only system integrator to earn multiple in the Fall. Additionally, we own a 45-acre tract of
accolades, further reinforcing the momentum we are land adjacent to this project which we are currently
gaining in the industry. working to put into a “shovel ready” condition,
This would not have been possible without our and then we can offer it to existing or prospective
incredible team. We kicked off 2023 with 300+ customers interested in building a new facility. More to
Solutioneers in our ‘work from anywhere’ model. We come on this in the future.
now have a full People Operations/HR team with In parallel to all the aforementioned work, we
members devoted to learning and development, continue to prospect for great land sites and
business partnering, and recruiting. We have also opportunities and remain optimistic the future will
added a Marketing arm to our Sales organization continue to be bright for the industrial market.
to help us achieve our long-term growth plan
(Project Athena). Spot, our favorite non-human
Solutioneer, has been very active in the community Gray Architects &
promoting STEM and inspiring the next generation Engineers
of Solutioneers. with Dowell Hoskins
President
In just a few months, we’re excited to open
the new Gray Solutions/Gray Construction hub It seems like I start every Graypvine article with Company
in Denver, a great location for many future new the same sentence, and this one is no different – updates
customer meetings! we are still continuing to grow our AE team in all continued
office locations as well as adding fully remote team on next
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members. We currently have 147 team members in
