Status: Completed
Location: 2 St Ann’s Ave, Bronx, NY 10454
Area: 639,000 SF
Completion: Summer 2018
Client Site: https://www.freshdirect.com/
The new Fresh Direct facility, at 639,000 SF, has a unique design that utilizes the latest technology, food safety procedures and efficient methodologies to deliver up to 30,000 customer orders per day. The shape of the building utilizes every square foot of the site. It is totally clad in white insulated metal panel exterior and has a grand 2 story glazed entry. The interior on one side of the building has a 45,000 SF commissary on the ground floor with offices and bakery on the second floor. The warehouse has a highly automated, vertically formatted material handling system that encompasses most of the warehouse portion of the building to process many orders. CA incorporated a multi-level system that efficiently utilizes the building’s height to maneuver totes and cartons which had to be designed to fit within the building’s core and shell. This machine has almost 10 miles of conveyors encompassing almost 132,000 SF meandering through elevated work platforms and Mechanical mezzanines. Martin Cybul, John Artuso, and Luis Quiroz spent years assisting FD in the design and development of this state-of-the-art facility. The processing of foods to direct home delivery was a unique concept that required extensive design innovations.
