Big Lots, Inc. 
Distribution Facility 
Durant, OK

Big Lots, Inc. selected The Haskell Company to provide real estate and design-build services for a southwest distribution facility of 1.2 million SF.

Haskell's real estate division selected and evaluated specific sites and their communities.  Once a site was chosen, Haskell helped Big Lots negotiate state and local economic incentives, which were offered due to the 600 new jobs the center created.

Haskell 's Architecture/Engineering (A/E) team provided architectural programming to coordinate the facility's layout with Big Lots' material handling vendors.  Haskell's A/E group also provided complete design and engineering services.

Haskell's Industrial Project Delivery Group provided Construction Management services and completed the new center in 12 months. Haskell's in-house steel shop provided the project with steel fabrication services.

The completed facility features a 45-foot-tall warehouse with a 39'-6" clear height and a 1,000-foot-long, cantilevered, tilt-up, MFL wall that divides the facility into two 600,000 SF buildings.

The facility also includes 104 loading dock positions. It is designed to accommodate eight four-level merchandise pick modules and an automated shipping conveyor system with more than 35,000 linear feet of conveyor and a 51-door shipping sorter. To accommodate 1,000 trailer storage positions, the center also has more than 1.6 million SF of heavy-duty asphalt paving.

This is the tenth project Haskell has performed for Big Lots. These projects total in excess of $160 MM and 5 million SF