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Volume 13
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Number 7
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JULY 2015
Under two roofs
Hill site
L-R: Roofing’s a family affair for Grant, Kimberly and Andrew May.
Bobcat’s new Cedar Hill location opens in July.
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ith only a C-note in her account and the help of her sons, Kimberly May has built and brought WnR, a WBE roofing contractorrelated business servicing specialty niches within the roofing industry, to its 10-year mark. She remembers the founding of WnR in 2005 as a leap of faith. “I was working for my dad’s roofing company and just decided to go out on my own,” she says. “I had kids in college and $100 in my bank account. I didn’t have any money to start with, but I had contracts waiting on me.” She also had two people in her corner: Her sons, Grant May and Andrew May.
“Grant started working with me from the very first brainstorming meeting and then Andrew started a couple of years later, handling my accounting, while he was 20 and still in college,” Kimberly says. “We did this for several years while both honed their respective skill sets.” In 2010, both sons were offered positions with Roofmart International (RMI), a roofing material manufacturer. Today, Grant is a vice president in charge of national field, training, technical and product development. Andrew is CFO and oversees RMI manufacturing process and facilities. While Kimberly continues to grow WnR, she has become a trusted advisor to RMI and other contractors with
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ome July, you’ll be able to see much more than just fireworks from Highway 67. Berry Companies is opening its eighth Texas Bobcat location on 616 Jealouse Way in Cedar Hill. Construction equipment sales, parts, rental and service will be offered at the 12,500-sf full-service Bobcat dealership, which is the company’s fourth location in North Texas. “Almost four years ago, we moved our dealership from Irving to Lewisville, and we are planning to move our Fort Worth store up to the north side of Fort Worth,” Cole Young, president of Bobcat of Dallas, Fort Worth and Longview, explains. “Because of that, we needed to have a dealership on the south side of the
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Metroplex to better serve those customers. That was the motivation behind the Cedar Hill location.” The renovated dealership will offer the same services and products as its other locations, but in a sleek, tailormade setting. “We’ve totally remodeled it,” Young says of the building that houses the dealership. “We demo’d what was in there and put a storefront on the south side of the building, a new showroom, offices, a shop on the north side of the building and turned it into a full-service dealership.” The Cedar Hill location will begin with employing between eight to nine continued on Page 18
Thinking big
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esigning and building the country’s largest freestanding Volkswagen dealership requires thinking on a large scale. Fortunately, Corbet Design + Build knows all about making big plans. The scope of Hendrick Volkswagen Frisco, located at 5010 SH 121, was extensive. The plans called for a two-story, 61,481-sf dealership to sit on a 14-acre site with 981 parking spaces. It also included a 26,118-sf service area with 31 service bays and a 29,418-sf customer/office area. To complete the project in 14 months, Corbet Design + Build CEO Bryan Garvey, project managers Clem Myers and Richard McCord, and project superintendent Curtis Gahagan kept consideration of the clients’ requirements a top priority. “Throughout the design and construction process, we kept coming back
to “What best represents Volkswagen?” and “How do we build a dealership that encapsulates Volkswagen’s brand and values?” Volkswagen is known for design, efficiency and sustainability, so those were always at the forefront of our minds during the process,” Garvey explains. The team had to keep the City of Frisco’s permit and aesthetic requirements at the forefront, as well. “There were a few main challenges to this project,” says Garvey. “Primarily, it was on two sites with two separate entitlement packages, which required two different permits with two separate [special use permit] approvals. This also required two separate project schedules. Ultimately, it was permitted under SUP. “Another challenge was the fusion of criteria and concept. The development district has specific design criteria, which The largest Volkswagen dealership in the U.S. required big planning.
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