John Deere Selects Weitz To Build New Facility
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 15, 2008
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Greg Shannon, Business Development Manager, The Weitz Company
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John Deere selects The Weitz Company to build
new Marketing and Sales Facility
Overland Park, KS – John Deere has selected The Weitz Company, Overland Park, Kansas to construct their new North America Marketing and Sales Facility to be built in Olathe, Kansas. Located near Ridgeview Road and Highway K-10, the 126,150 square-foot facility will house more than 400 marketing professionals and will meet LEED – Gold Level certification standards.
“We are very excited to be partnered with John Deere on this project. Our company’s LEED experience will prove invaluable as we achieve Gold Level standards for their new facility. The project is both environmentally friendly and a boon to the local economy,” said Radd C. Way, president of Weitz-Kansas City. Construction will begin in October 2008 with completion scheduled for early 2010. The project architect is Holland Basham Architects, Omaha, Nebraska.
ABOUT WEITZ - EMPLOYEE OWNED CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
The Weitz Company, founded in Des Moines, Iowa in 1855, is the second oldest commercial general contractor in the United States and consistently ranks among the top 50 contractors nationwide in Engineering News-Record magazine’s Top 400 Contractors survey. Weitz has annual revenues in excess of $1.7 billion and 14 business units nationwide. The employee owned company has reported 276 straight months of profitability, a benchmark rarely accomplished in the construction industry.