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Commercial & industrial GC · Est. 1998

Long distribution warehouse with tractor-trailers parked along its loading docks under a blue sky

P-01 Logistics & Distribution

Larkspur Regional Distribution Center

Larkspur Junction

A 480,000 SF cross-dock distribution hub, ground-break to first truck in fourteen months.

Size
480,000 SF
Contract value
$58M
Duration
14 months
Delivery method
Design-Build
Status
2025
Sector
Logistics & Distribution
Location
Larkspur Junction

N-01 The brief

A regional grocery distributor's lease was expiring with no renewal option. They had fourteen months to design, permit and build a 480,000 SF cross-dock hub with 62 dock positions, or pay holdover rates that would erase two years of margin.

N-02 The build

Design-build with the schedule run backwards from lease expiry. Foundations and the tilt-up package were released at 60% design; our own crews cast and flew 214 panels in nine weeks while the roof steel was still being fabricated. Dock equipment and ESFR fire protection were bought with the foundation package, and the super-flat slab pours were F-number tested bay by bay so racking installation could chase the concrete around the building.

N-03 The handover

First inbound truck docked thirteen days before lease expiry. The racking installer started six weeks earlier than their own baseline because the floor data let them work behind our pours in sequence.

The owner's view

“We had fourteen months and a lease we could not extend. Meridian built the schedule backwards from that date and told us every Friday exactly where we stood. The first truck docked with thirteen days to spare.”

Tom Brannigan, Vice President, Real Estate, Larkspur Fresh Grocers Fictional reference

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