Castle's New Home
 

We just spent the last three days moving Castle to a new home.

Our old building was only a little under 12,000 sq ft. . . and we outgrew it quite a while ago.

Our new building is 65,000 sq ft. And we now have a lot of room to grow into.

Check out the pictures of the new place (I took these during the move -- but not everything is unpacked yet!)

Our new conference room:

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...t/IMG_0225.jpg

Installing the SMT line:

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...t/IMG_0232.jpg

Engineering's new area (about 8000 sq ft)

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...t/IMG_0226.jpg

Part of Order Admin and Tech Support:

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...t/IMG_0224.jpg

Part of the production area (getting set-up)

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...t/IMG_0217.jpg

View of the production area from under the mezzanine:

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...t/IMG_0236.jpg

More production area and warehouse:

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...t/IMG_0230.jpg

My new office (first time I've had an office at Castle!)

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...t/IMG_0257.jpg

Wire processing:

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...t/IMG_0247.jpg


Lots more pictures if you browse my photobucket.

Patrick

And our new address is:

540 N Rogers Road, Olathe KS, 66062

where's the indoor off-road track? and the indoor on road track? and the drag strip? and the insanely big ramp you drive over-powered revo's and savages off of to test esc/motor durability/power? jk patrick...place looks great!

Wow that is just awesome... most silicone wire I've seen at one time!

Wow........ :gasp::surprised::surprised::gasp:

Funny you should mention it...

We have a small indoor track under the mezz.... :yes:

:surprised:AWSOME:gasp::gasp::yipi:

Very nice Patrick. My compliments on the fancy new desk. You do know having an office at the plant means you have to work now right? :yes: :rules:

No more showing up just to play, Joe and Thomas can't do it all you know. :intello:

Nice! Man, I'd LOVE to work there. :cry:

It would be nice to be able to see it but this goverment computer does not allow access to photobucket. I'll be able to see them once we pull into port during this deployment. Google up USS George Washington (CVN 73) and you'll know what we're doing :):).

Anyway, congrats!!!!

Wow... awesome! :)

Congratulations Patrick your company surely deserves this!

Is the building brand new? It looks like it.

WOW! Looks like an awesome upgrade. You must be very proud Patrick.


No, having his own office means he can hide....... if he turns out the light and lays down behind that big desk :sleep:

You didn't get a window?? ooohh, no time for daydreaming. Gotta pay for that somehow :tongue:

Impressive sight to see, good for you Pat and all of Castle's crew !

With all that polished concrete it's just beggin' for some drifting !

No the building is over 20 years old. It was originally built by King Radio. My wife (Brenda) and I both worked in the building years ago. Brenda started there when it was still King Radio, and I worked there after King was bought out by Allied Signal Aerospace. Allied Signal eventually merged with Honeywell, and then they built a new facility.

The building was then occupied by several different companies that came and went.
Sprint spent $9million upgrading and renovating the building just a couple years ago, then moved out after only 18 months.

It had everything we needed for our production (power distribution buses, 2 x 100hp air compressors and air distribution, a 2 MW whole-building UPS system and 2 MW diesel generator, complete air-handling with chilled-water AC system and air filtration, etc.)

Because there is a TON of commercial space available in KC (much of it vacated by Sprint) we were able to lease the space very cheap.

We were very lucky to find such a nice space that had everything we needed -- and find it for a good price. :party:

I do have a window. But the pics were taken with my Iphone, and it doesn't have a wide enough shot to show the rest of the office. My office is HUGE. :lol:

+1, I'm a multifaceted individual with a good work ethic..........blah....blah....

That place looks great, looks like a great place to work.

Congratulations Patrick!

You sound very excited about the new building and very understandably so!

You and your company deserve it. :yipi:

I hope you out grow it too! :yes:

Is there an ICE HV line going in there somewhere?

I think I am officially jealous now. :surprised:

The compressors alone are worth a pretty penny. Nice find for sure. :yipi:

Nice Nice Nice. That is a good size building to grow into for sure.

Congratulations and good luck. Hope you got a nice long lease if you plan on staying a while.

It does look like some natural light is shinning in on the left from your private commode. Smooth Move. :wink:

WOW. I design electrical distribution systems for buildings for a living and this one sounds pretty impressive. 2MW of whole building UPS backup is not cheap. Its probably sized to carry the load until the gen kicks in but thats still a lot of batteries. The UPS systems probably have bypass switches to re-route power in case of failure.
A lot of the telecom carriers also believed in multiple levels of redundancy for a lot of their systems and didnt skimp. You may even find that some or possibly all loads are backed up by multiple sources of power so in case of a failure you just reroute power within your building to a different distribution panel or switchboard. They might have even talked the utility into dual services fed from indepenant utility transformers. Your generators are probably paralleled so that if one goes down the other kicks in.
That is truly a great find.

Wait a sec...didn't know you replied to my post...lol...any pics of the track?

Very nice indeed but damn, that cubicle area with the retro 70's orange and yellow paint has got to go :whistle:

Wow, that place looks huge- plenty of room to stockpile escs for the summer rush :mdr:

Nice score on getting it so cheap & freshly rennovated, cant say no to deal like that.

The track got superseded by a ping-pong table and Wii. :lol:

Ping Pong? Or beer pong? :lol:

Congrats on the new building. I gotta tell ya I was cringing a little as I had sent in a motor for warranty service and then heard you were moving during the same time frame. I thought it would take a long time to get my motor replaced but I was wrong. Even with the move going on you guys had a great turn around time on my warranty motor. Thanks for the great service during what I am sure was a very hectic time for the entire Castle staff.

My thoughts exactly, but I would only be qualified to clean the toilets and make coffee for the boss. I would make the coffee before I clean the toilets of course. That is one big, clean and soon to be well organized factory. Congratulations, you all deserve it.