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of District 2. The team constructed greenhouses We recently won an additional data center campus
to assist in educational opportunities for the
neighborhood youth. These greenhouses provide
a space for local kids to learn hands-on science
and how to cultivate plants, flowers, and food.
This project also allows those children to learn
entrepreneurial skills by selling their food at local
farmers markets and flowers to area florists. The
Gray team is also working with the City of Detroit as
they begin the construction of their $15MM transit
center on an adjacent parcel. In the coming months
the Amazon Robotics and Deployment teams will
mobilize, bringing all of the main stakeholders to the
project. With TCO and Launch right on our heels, it
will be a race to the finish as the team prepares for
final closeout in the Spring.
Finally, we recently signed the contract for a Chick-
fil-A project and our team took a photo on a red
couch to mark the occasion.
Mission Critical
The start of a new year is the perfect time to
reflect. Reflect on the previous year’s successes and
challenges and look forward to beginning the new
year reenergized and excited. Taking the lessons
we have learned and building on the success of
2021, the Mission Critical team is looking forward to
another exciting year of growth and opportunity.
In the last few months, we have added five new
team members to the Mission Critical team. As the
Mission Critical and Advanced Technology markets
continue to grow, we are committed to growing our
teams to support the ever evolving demands of our
customers – both current and future.
In addition to growing our project teams, we are
also actively pursuing the growth of our customer
base. We’re proud to partner with Barton Malow
on Ford’s BlueOval SK Battery Park project in
Kentucky. The team is looking forward to this new
opportunity with a new customer. We look forward
to sharing more about this exciting project in future
Graypvine editions.
in Columbus, Ohio with our primary customer. Gray’s
success in the Columbus data center market can
be directly linked to our second core value: We are
customer and relationship driven. The Columbus site
and project management teams continue to work as
a cohesive team to deliver unforgettable customer
experiences and great projects.
This Mission Critical team is excited to kick
off the new year with new growth and new
opportunities ahead!
Distribution &
Commercial 5
with Rodney Carpenter
Vice President, Distribution
& Commercial Market
We finished 2021 strong and the outlook for
2022 looks even brighter. Our teams continue
to battle cost escalations on our projects plus a
challenging climate to procure and secure delivery
of construction materials, while continuing to be
diligent in minimizing the impacts of the evolving
global pandemic to our job sites. The day-to-day
tests we face to execute our projects seem to keep
coming and our project teams are resilient in their
execution. Certainly, these are difficult times for even
the most experienced teams.
It is a busy time for our teams working on
the distribution front. In November we started
construction on a 320,000 s.f. cross-dock
warehouse for FedEx in Jonesboro, Arkansas.
This facility will blend both ground and express
operations into one building. We were recently
awarded another project for Publix Super Markets.
Our design teams have been working hard to
provide an innovative solution for a new Ready To
Eat (RTE) facility. Through collaboration with the
Publix team, we have taken items from prior similar Company
projects to provide an optimized and more efficient updates
design for the Fresh Kitchen project to be built in continued
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