PennTerra teams up with First Quality

First Quality Baby Products

Last summer the Mifflin County Industrial Development Corporation was working together with Pennsylvania's Governor's Action Team and Granville Township to bring First Quality to Mifflin County, and they needed approvals to occur quickly. In June 2007, PennTerra was contracted to design the 1.25 million square foot diaper factory on a very aggressive schedule. PennTerra committed to this important project and after only six months, the 100 acre vacant tract had been transformed to a unique industrial property with nearly 60% of the buildings structural steel and framing completed.

There were many elements that were incorporated into the site's design. PennTerra's First Quality Design Team (Gregg Saunders, Jerry Wilson, and Mike Hagemeyer) worked on a massive earthwork design consisting of four detention basins including three "wet ponds." The construction of these facilities will showcase PennTerra's progressive design abilities. In addition to the design of phase one, PennTerra has also:

  • Worked as the liason for First Quality on the construction of the project
  • Begun the design of Locust Road for the Mifflin County Industrial Development Corporation
  • Provided construction survey services
  • Begun design of the second phase of the project

Through the strong cooperative effort of the Mifflin County Conservation District, Granville Township and their engineer, Dan Taptich, the First Quality Project was expedited in review and permitting with allowed this huge project to get underway. By October 2007, only three months after PennTerra began design of the project, Glenn O. Hawbaker Inc. began moving over one million cubic yards of material. In December 2007, BuCON, Inc., the building contractor, began to mobilize and the foundations of the building were underway.


“Our business is all about relationships —
relationships with our clients,
and how to build relationships with
everyone who is involved with
a new development. We know people,
and we know how to get the job done.”

— John Sepp, PennTerra President




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