From the Ground Up: FedEx Freight

Owner/developer: Setzer Properties SGF LLC

General contractor: Rich Kramer Construction Inc.

Architect: Chamberlain Goforth Architects (now dissolved)

Engineers: Deka Engineering LLC, civil; LaRose & Schober Engineering Inc., mechanical, electrical and plumbing; and Tom Edelman, structural

Size: 105,000 square feet

Estimated cost: $12.5 million, according to Setzer Properties owner Brett Setzer

Lender: Regions Bank

Estimated completion date: July 24

Project description: FedEx's service center includes about 8,000 square feet of office space, a 13,000-square-foot maintenance facility, a fuel island and 156 service doors, according to Rob Phillips, project manager with Rich Kramer Construction. The 55-acre project site will allow for building and parking expansion. FedEx officials have said the facility will boost local loading capacity by about 60 percent. Setzer Properties is developing the site to FedEx specifications and will lease the freight distribution center back to the company.Compiled by Maria Hoover. Springfield Business Journal brings you new projects each week. Send project info by fax to (417) 799-0603 or by e-mail to sbj@sbj.net.