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Spiegel
Catalog Warehouse
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| Outdated Spiegel
Catalog Warehouse buildings in Chicago's South Side are the source
of hundreds of thousands of board feet of Trestlewood Southern
Yellow Pine flooring and accessory products. |
| The 21 Spiegel
Chicago buildings, 7 of which were built in 1916 and most of the rest
of which were built between World War I and World War II, served as
Spiegel's primary distribution facility until 1995, when a new $135
million facility was brought on line near Columbus, Ohio. |
| The old, multi-story
Chicago buildings just could not compete with the efficiencies offered
by the ultra-modern, single level Ohio facility. Merchandise that
was handled 7 or 8 times in Chicago only needs to be handled once
or twice in Ohio. |
| Fortunately,
some of the materials from the historic Spiegel Chicago buildings
are being given a second life. Trestlewood purchased several
truckloads of 3" x 6" and 3" x 8" vertical decking that served as
warehouse floors in many of the buildings and is now remanufacturing
this Southern Yellow Pine decking into beautiful rustic flooring and
accessory products. |
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| Information
sources: 12/18/94 Chicago Sun-Times article; 12/1/95 Modern
Materials Handling article. |
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