The Goal Under Armour, a leading athletic gear company with an expanding customer base, looked to add a distribution center in the Baltimore area to enhance its direct-to consumer strategy. The company selected Tradepoint Atlantic, a global logistics center on a 3,100-acre brownfield site that was home to the Bethlehem Steel foundry and offered an unmatched combination of access to deep-water berths, rails and highways.
FCL Delivered A 1.3 million square-foot distribution and warehouse facility featuring state-of-the-art equipment and systems that met Under Armour’s distribution and e-commerce goals.
| region | FCL | Northeast |
| service | Design-Build |
| type | E-Commerce |
| use | E-Commerce and Distribution |
| size | 1,286,000 sq. ft. |
Regional Vice President, Northeast
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253,000 sq. ft. structural mezzanine
Four-level material handling system
60,000 sq. ft. of Class A office
16,000 amps of distributed power
Significant hanging conveyor loads and supportive building structure to accommodate material handling
All IT and Security systems installation and coordination
Delivered project in 12 months from concept to completion, including full design. Design-build is the only delivery method capable of building concurrent with the design process to achieve this aggressive timeframe.
Roof system installed over the structure’s metal deck included two layers of 2.5-inch poly ISO and a 60-mil TPO membrane.
Managing environmental concerns of this full brownfield project to unique materials (slag, rail-line spoils, huge iron and steel spoils, etc.), often unknown legacy infrastructure. 100-ton mining trucks moved and placed over 600,000 tons of aggregate base in three weeks. Six underground utility crews and multiple demolition and earthwork crews met aggressive schedules required to prepare the pads for vertical construction.
276 4 ft. x 8 ft. skylights to illuminate key areas of the facility. During install, safety precautions included perimeter warning lines, and workers outside that area were tied off 100 percent of the time.
Full BMS system with interface & conveyance systems
Design-build approach to coordinate hanging conveyor loads to avoid in-place steel modifications during MHE install
"Under Armour is a true Maryland success story, and this new e-commerce center is another way they are showing their commitment to our state and to the Baltimore region"
Larry Hogan Governor of Maryland
