CHICAGO, March 25
EPSTEIN TO WINS DESIGN-BUILD CONTRACT FOR NEW WINCO STATE-OF-THE-ART DISTRIBUTION CENTER

A. Epstein and Sons International, Inc. has been chosen to design and build a new 786,000-square-foot grocery distribution center for WinCo Foods, a major supermarket retailer with more than 60 stores in California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Washington.

The new center is located in Boise, Idaho, on 80 acres southeast of Boise Airport. The center will feature 246,000 square feet of refrigerated space and 330,000 square feet of warehouse space. In addition, the facility will have 107 truck docks, a dispatch office, truck maintenance facility, refueling center, vehicle washing center and guard house.

“The new facility will cost-effectively support WinCo’s rapid growth and low-cost business model as well as well as Epstein’s continued leadership in design-build for distribution centers in the grocery industry and beyond,” said John Patelski, executive managing director with Epstein.

This is the third major assignment from WinCo, an employee-owned company headquartered in Boise and whose stores are open 24 hours a day. Epstein also designed and built a 725,000-square-foot distribution center in Ceres, CA, completed in 2004. It currently is in the process of expanding that facility by 125,000 square feet – 100,000 square feet of dry warehouse space and 25,000 square feet of freezer space.

Before being awarded the design-build contract, Epstein assisted WinCo in site selection, site planning and documentation for approval by the City of Boise. Groundbreaking is planned for summer of 2009.

About A. Epstein and Sons International, Inc.
A. Epstein and Sons International, Inc. was formed in 1921 and provides architecture, engineering, construction, interior and graphic design services worldwide. Headquartered in Chicago, the firm maintains offices in Los Angeles, California; a site office in New York, New York, Warsaw, Poland; Shenzhen, China and Bucharest, Romania. Epstein consistently is ranked tops for its industrial and manufacturing design and construction work by well-known industry media including Engineering News Record, Building Design + Construction and Midwest Construction. Additionally, the firm is well-known for its commercial, high-rise residential, municipal, educational and transportation projects including the recently completed West Expansion to the McCormick Place Convention Center, New York City’s upcoming expansion of the Jacob Javits Convention Center, Chicago’s Hyatt Center office tower and the Zlote Tarasy Mixed-Use Development in Warsaw. Epstein is a leader in sustainable design, developing “green” solutions and technologies across all building types.