Tri-State Supply breaks ground
Tri-State Supply Co. Inc., a Washington-based distributor of electrical and automation products to industrial clients, broke ground on a 25,000-square-foot distribution center in Taylorstown.
According to information provided by Tri-State Supply, the building will be to the left of the district magistrate’s building and Gross Construction.
On one end of the structure, there will be two levels – 2,500 square feet each – for office space upstairs and a “technology center” on the lower level that will include a 50-seat training room and a separate room for demonstrating the latest in Rockwell Automation products and software.
The building is expected to be completed in December. The general contractor is Bear Construction.
Tri-State Supply Executive Vice President Jeff Van Zandt said the company, which is headquartered on West Chestnut Street, ran out of storage space.
When the company celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2013, it said it was looking for a second warehouse to serve as a central distribution center.
Van Zandt’s father, Tri-State President and CEO Jim Van Zandt, helped start the company as a family business in 1963.
Today, the company has four other stores – Waynesburg, New Brighton, Butler and Wheeling, W.Va. – that distribute products.