Tencarva Machinery breaks ground in Nashville
Tencarva Machinery Company, based in Greensboro, N.C., recently broke ground on its new facility in Nashville, Tenn.
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At the recent groundbreaking for the new Tencarva Machinery Company facility at 2937 Kraft Drive in Nashville are (from left) Bill Allen, vice president, Municipal Division; Don Wirth, vice president in Nashville; Kirk Arnold, project superintendent with Crain Construction; and Ed Guffee, vice president, Municipal Division. |
When completed in March 2015, the facility will house Tencarva's Nashville branch office and the Southern sales division, according to Edwin W. Pearce III, president of Tencarva.
Don Wirth, vice president located in the Nashville branch, said the two-acre site will encompass approximately 23,000 square feet, with 9,000 square feet dedicated to office space and training, and 14,000 square feet housing warehouse and service. The Tencarva team from both divisions totals 29 employees.
"The Tencarva facility on Fesslers Parkway in Nashville has been sold, and the existing Southern sales division building will be used to house personnel from both companies until the new building is completed, then it will be put up for sale," Wirth said.
Architect for the facility is Southeast Venture, with Crain Construction as the general contractor. Allen-Guffee Investments acquired the property from P356 Properties in 2009.
"There are many exciting aspects of erecting this new building, and it starts with combining all activities of both the industrial and municipal divisions under one roof. Everyone is family, and having all of us together and interacting will be terrific," Wirth added.
A training facility will allow staff to perform customer training activities previously not available in house. These training activities will be both technical in nature as well as teaching equipment maintenance and repair.
The warehouse/service area will serve as a repair facility for the firm's municipal and industrial customers.Two five-ton overhead cranes and multiple column-mounted jib cranes for lifting will assure worker safety.
The facility will feature a filtered “clean room” for bearing frame assembly, and a test pit for testing horizontal, vertical and submersible pumps.
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