The Job is the Boss Tour 2020 has come to an end. We launched the tour to recognize the resiliency of Clayco’s integral construction workforce who quickly adapted to working amid new health and safety guidelines during this tumultuous time. We started on the east coast and traveled from Pennsylvania to the Midwest before heading to the west coast, traveling from San Diego to Seattle and back to Chicago. During this four-week period, we met directly with our diverse team of men and women across America, exchanging elbow bumps, face-to-face gratitude and thumbs up.
" Although we have witnessed a significant worldwide shift to remote, at home, work, it’s important to us at Clayco that we remember and appreciate the sacrifices of employees who cannot work from home,” said Clark. “I am amazed by the strength, resiliency, and adaptability of our field project team members. I felt there was no more sincere way to show my gratitude than by expressing it in-person."
Bob Clark
Executive Chairman & Founder
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Clayco completed our first cross-country, work-site excursion, “The Job is The Boss Tour 2020," where Clayco Executive Chairman and Founder Bob Clark traveled to each of the company’s active job sites, personally sharing his gratitude and delivering gifts to on-site employees. The tour was launched in recognition of the resiliency of Clayco’s integral construction workforce who quickly adapted to working amid new health and safety guidelines during this tumultuous time.
Clark’s tour, which covered tens of thousands of miles, started on the east coast on October 6. Clark traveled from Pennsylvania to the Midwest before taking his trip to the west coast, traveling from San Diego to Seattle. The tour’s last stop was in Athens, Georgia on October 28. During this four-week period, Clark met directly with Clayco’s diverse team of men and women across America, exchanging elbow bumps and his gratitude face-to-face, and offering employees custom gift boxes containing a variety of Clayco branded merchandise.
PSU EAST HALLS
We started the tour at Penn State University’s East Halls Development, one of the largest residence hall construction projects ever undertaken by the university. While on campus, we made sure to visit the Nittany Lion!
PSU WEST CAMPUS GARAGE
While on campus, we stopped by Penn State’s West Campus Parking Garage project where Lamar Johnson Collaborative and Clayco are design-building a new 1,600-space parking structure and site/civil improvements.
PROJECT SOPHIA
Our tour ontinued in Delaware at our Project Sophia jobsite. When complete, this project will be a 3,700,000-squarefoot distribution facility that includes 4 elevated concrete floors.
ROCKWOOL
We wrapped up our first day on the tour in West Virginia at our Rockwool project site. Rockwool is the world’s leading manufacturer of stone wool insulation. This 460,000-square-foot manufacturing facility sits on 130 acres and includes multiple buildings with varying conditions and infrastructure to support the manufacturing process and equipment.
HAGERTOWN LOGISTICS
We started the day bright and early touring our Hagerstown Logistics project in Maryland. This speculative building will be our third facility in Hagerstown for NorthPoint Development.
CENTENE EAST COAST HQ
We spent the afternoon visiting the start of Centene’s new East Coast Headquarters. This new 80-acre campus will accommodate approximately 6,000 employees and will feature office space, an early childhood development center, a training center, as well as walking trails and water features.
BLUE ORIGIN/MSFC ENGINE TEST FACILITY
We started our day in Alabama at the Blue Origin Engine Facility which was wrapping up construction. This facility houses the tooling, equipment and operations required to manufacture Blue Origin’s next generation rocket engines.
VOLKSWAGEN BATTERY PLANT
We then made our way to Tennessee and toured the 198,000-squarefoot battery assembly facility and Volkswagen’s North American hub for electric vehicle batteries.
VOLKSWAGEN BODY SHOP
While in Chattanooga, we went by the 564,000-square-foot body shop expansion for Volkswagen. Production will begin by 2022 and will create around 1,000 new jobs.
PROJECT TITAN
The next stop in Tennessee was in Goodlettsville to tour Project Titan. The scope of this project includes 40,000+ square feet of freezer expansion.
PSU EAST HALLS
We started the tour at Penn State University’s East Halls Development, one of the largest residence hall construction projects ever undertaken by the university. While on campus, we made sure to visit the Nittany Lion!
PROJECT SAM
Our final stop for the day was a visit with Concrete Strategies at their Project Sam jobsite in Mount Juliet, Tennessee.
PROJECT BELMONT
The next day of the tour began in Indiana with a tour of Project Belmont, which is a 450,000-square-foot addition to an existing 1 million-square-foot facility that Clayco completed back in 2011.
ETNA PARK 70 EAST
From Michigan, we traveled to Pataskala, Ohio for another tour of side-by-side projects. Our Etna Park 70 East jobsite is providing earthwork development for the neighboring Schuster Way East.
SCHUSTER WAY EAST
Our tour then continued to the adjacent Schuster Way East project that involves the construction of a new roadway, widening of an existing highway and utility service for a new industrial park.
NICKLIES
The tour started the day in Louisville, Kentucky at the 930,000-squarefoot Nicklies project. The jobsite was showing its Clayco pride with a huge banner!
HORIZON XI-DLI3
The next stop on our tour brought us to Missouri, home to half a dozen of our current projects. The first stop was to Horizon XI in Riverside. Horizon XI is still early in its construction, but will eventually be a 112,000-squarefoot warehouse and office.
PROJECT SMILE
Our final stop for the day was in St. Peters, Missouri, where we toured the jobsite for Project Smile. This project is a new logistics warehouse that is being developed by CRG.
EDGE@WEST
To start our day in St. Louis, we visited the EDGE@WEST. This project utilizes the full design-build and self-perform concrete resources of Lamar Johnson Collaborative, Clayco, and Concrete Strategies. When completed, the building will feature shared workspaces, plus additional open common elements and amenities to improve the quality of the work environment.
CENTENE URBAN CAMPUS
From there we traveled to Centene Centre. This project is an expansion to Centene’s existing campus. The addition to campus is designed to meet Centene’s growth projections, while also creating a vibrant, mixed-use development that fits into the city of Clayton’s downtown master plan.
100 ABOVE THE PARK
Next on our tour list was the iconic new 100 Above the Park project. Unique in its design, this residential tower project seeks to connect people to views of Forest Park and the Gateway Arch.
DELMAR DIVINE
Last but not least was a tour of our Delmar Divine project. Delmar Divine is being developed, designed and built by CRG, Lamar Johnson Collaborative, and Clayco, and will co-locate nonprofit organizations and innovative programs, all while providing ffordable housing for young professionals and leaders in the social sector.
PROJECT BRONCO
Our tour then headed out west to Idaho to explore Project Bronco, a gigantic 2.6+ million-square-foot distribution center located on a 64 acre site.
MWH06
We started our tour down the West Coast at our jobsite in Quincy, Washington. The project is a 195,000-square-foot facility adjacent to our client’s existing campus.
HAWKS PRAIRIE
We ended the day in Washington at our NorthPoint Hawks Prairie project in Lacey. The facility is a massive 1.3 million-square-foot distribution center that will serve our client’s shipping in the Northwest
PROJECT WINLOCK
Our last stop in Washington was at Project Winlock to tour the 1.2 million-square-foot distribution center.
SACRAMENTO BTS 600
We then began the tours of our jobsites located around Sacramento, California. The first stop was Project Sacramento BTS 600, a 600,000-square-foot warehouse.
PROJECT SHELBY
We then went next door to visit Project Shelby. Once completed, this project will be over 1 million square feet of fulfillment center with mezzanine and office spaces.
PROJECT FIRST BASE
Our final stop of the day was at Project First Base which is another of our 1 million+ square-foot projects.
CCLC BUILDING 1
From Sacramento, we moved on to Oakley, California where we started our day with a tour of two neighboring jobsites. CCLC Building 1 is a 143,503-square-foot distribution center.
CCLC BUILDING 2
The tour then continued next door at CCLC Building 2. This project is a 443,591-squarefoot speculative building.
PROJECT ARCILLA
We ended our jobsite tour down the West Coast in San Diego, California. Project Arcilla is a massive 3.4 million-squarefoot distribution center.
HARBOR FREIGHT CHICAGO
Back to the Midwest, our tour took us to our 1.6 million-square-foot Harbor Freight project just outside of Chicago.
PROJECT CONDOR
A short 30 minute drive to the next stop in our tour, we visited with the team at Project Condor. This project is a 1 million-square-foot distribution warehouse located on an 83 acre site.
PROJECT INTERSTATE II
We began the next day of our tour with Project Interstate II. This 700,000-square-foot project is nearing completion with a target finish date right after the new year.
SCAD VICTORY RESIDENCE HALLS
Our next stop in Georgia was to the recently completed Sail at Victory Village. This was Clayco’s fourth project with SCAD and it utilized the full design-build resources of Clayco and Lamar Johnson Collaborative.
SK BATTERY AMERICA PHASE II
Our only tour stop for the day was in Commerce, Georgia to visit the team working on SK Battery’s Phase 2. Our team had recently turned over Phase 1 and were excited to begin the next step of the project.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS DESIGN CENTER
Today’s tour stop brought us to University of Illinois’ campus to tour the nearly finished Siebel Center for Design project and then a peak at our previously completed Henry Dale and Betty Smith Football Center project.
FULTON EAST
This day of the tour brought us to Chicago which is home to our headquarters and several of our active jobsites. The first stop was at our Fulton East project. Fulton East was at a pivotal point in construction when COVID-19 hit, giving our team the opportunity to meet the crisis head-on by installing health and wellness features.
MACY'S CHICAGO RENOVATION
After Fulton East, we went to tour the renovation project of Macy’s flagship store. The 650,000-square-foot retrofit and renovation project is focused on preserving the iconic historical features, while bringing the office space up to class A condition.
WILLIS TOWER
Our next stop was at another transformative project of ours in Chicago, Willis Tower. Approximately 460,000 square feet of existing space within the Tower was reconfigured, including more than 300,000 square feet of new retail, dining and entertainment space, called Catalog.
COMMERCE PARK BUILDING A
Commerce Park is located on the old 2.3 million-square-foot Republic Steel Mill site and the development of projects in this area is expected to revitalize the local community. Commerce Park Building A is a speculative building that will be 299,057 square feet once completed.
COMMERCE PARK BUILDING E
Our last tour stop for the day was at Commerce Park Building E which is a 580,587-square-foot speculative building.
O'HARE ORD 21
Our final stop of the tour was
to our joint-venture project at O’Hare’s Global Terminal and Global Concourse. This massive project encompasses 2.2 million square feet of work on both the new concourse and the surrounding infrastructure.
PROJECT COUGAR AMZL
A few hours later, the tour continued in Pontiac, Michigan at the 202,316-square-foot Project Cougar AMZL facility jobsite.
PROJECT COUGAR AR G+4.5
From there, we traveled to the 800,000+ square-foot jobsite right next door. This project is being constructed simultaneously with Project Cougar AMZL .