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City Gear Multi Unit Interior Retail Construction

CPEX was chosen to buildout three City Gear stores’ (urban apparel retailer) interior, which all had to be opened within a ninety-day window, in Douglasville, GA, North Augusta, SC, and Aiken, SC.

As it turned out, the Douglasville location would have to be constructed in just 23 days!

Retail Store Service Area

CPEX Construction provides retail store construction throughout Metro Atlanta, North Georgia, Middle Georgia, and South Carolina.

  • Retail buildouts
  • Plumbing, electrical, and HVAC coordination
  • Fixture, furniture and equipment
  • Franchise compliance
  • Multi-location rollout work
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Project Details

CPEX Construction completed this project as the general contractor.

  • Location: Aiken and North Augusta, SC nad Douglasville, GA
  • Project Type: Multi Unit Retail Store
  • CPEX Role: General Contractor
  • Size: 6,000 SF (Typ)
  • Scope Items Included:
    • Demolition
    • Electrical
    • Plumbing
    • Mechanical
    • Framing
    • Sheetrock
    • Paint
    • Acoustic ceilings
    • Storefront
    • Firewalla
    • Electrical
    • Roofing
    • Structual modifications
    • Millwork installation
    • Fixture, furniture, and equipment installation ( FFE )

Challenge: We built three stores within a 90-day period. One of the stores had a major design flaw that caused a delay and its opening would not occur by the company’s fiscal year end. So, one of the other stores had open in its place, thus forcing us to complete and eight-week schedule in only 23 days.

CPEX Solution: We worked seven days a week and completed the project exactly on the last day possible for it to open when needed .

Outcome: The owner made the number of store openings that it had promised shareholders, and the delayed store opened a few weeks later, ahead of its revised schedule.

About half way through the work, a design error was encountered on the Aiken store. The electrical plans were predicated on the electrical transformer serving the building being 480 volt; it was not. This discovery came after HVAC equipment requiring 480V has already been installed.

Getting the power company to provide 480V service to the space would require six weeks.

Wall Street expected the publicly traded owner, Hibbett Sports, to deliver a certain number of stores by its looming year end, and this one was needed to make that goal.

Since there was nothing that could be done to deliver this location until the design error was resolved, the store opening was swapped with the Douglasville, GA location. The only problem was making the switch meant the 6,000 SF space in Georgia had to be completed in 23 days, from the start of construction to finish.

It was a huge ask, and we did not promise that it was possible, but committed to do our best to make it happen.

Our team carefully laid out a plan to make it happen. It required working 7 days per week, almost around the clock.

Though it seemed impossible, when first requested, CPEX received the certificate of occupancy and turned the store over to the client’s team for stocking on the exact target date.

The store that had suffered the six-week setback was then delivered approximately one week later than originally promised by implementing a new project plan to make the best use of the downtime spent waiting for the electrical delay to be resolved.

All three locations were open for business in less than ninety days!!!