MidwayUSA is adding to its “500-year campus” through the construction of a new Roosevelt administration building. This state-of-the-art, two-story, 61,000-square-foot facility is expected to house just over 200 employees across six departments.
Construction is estimated to be completed in Q4 of 2025. Along with the 400,000-square-foot Washington Distribution Center, the new administration building will complete the current plans for the new MidwayUSA campus.
“We are pleased to continue to support the growth of MidwayUSA through our new Roosevelt administration building,” said Larry Potterfield, founder and chair of the Board of Directors, MidwayUSA.
The company said its first building back in 1977 was only 1536 sf; sitting on less than an acre of land.
The company said it expanded that building four times to 10,000 sf, before moving.
“In 1988, we bought 12 acres, built a 30,000 sf building and moved,” the company said on its website. “Through the years, we acquired more land/buildings at that location and built, re-built or added on many times – ending up with four buildings (264,390 sf). We called it the Van Horn Campus (22 acres); after 30 years, we ran out of workspace and parking places.”
The so-called “500-year campus” got its start in 2006, when a friend and neighbor, George Rewerts, passed away.
“He lived just a couple miles west of us, on a 192-acre cattle farm,” the company said. “Wedged between I-70 to the south and U.S. Hwy 40 to the north, with Missouri State Highway J on the west side, it seemed like a perfect location and size for our next campus. A year later, working with the executor of George’s estate, we bought his farm. Immediately we called it the 500-year campus, as it seemed large enough to last that long.”
