Located at the corner of Grand Avenue and Broad Street in downtown Beloit, Wisc., Wright & Wagner is a former dairy turned luxury apartment community paying homage to the city's blue-collar industrial roots. The Wright & Wagner Lofts Riverfront Building opened to tenants in August 2023 with 83 total units. It is the second building of the Wright and Wagner Lofts properties which also includes the Grand Building, opened in May 2021 featuring 54 loft units.
Corporate Contractors Inc. served as the general contractor on the project, and JLA Architects served as the architect on the project. Mid-States Concrete Industries served as the precast partner.
The Riverfront Building includes nearly 75,000 square feet of hollow core and solid slabs, 115 beams, 164 columns, 56 wall panels with a wood grain form liner, and 76 Peikko DELTABEAMS®. Mid-States Concrete Industries also provided nearly 13,000 square feet of hollow core and solid slabs, 14 beams, 19 columns, and 85 wall panels with a wood grain form liner for the first floor of the Grand Building.
Mid-States Concrete Industries began production of the pieces for the Riverfront Building (featured in the video above) in August 2022 and completed production in November 2022, to deliver and erect components on site from September 2022 through November 2022.
According to Brad McCaslin, Project Manager with Mid-States Concrete Industries, precast components were erected at a rate of roughly one deck per week. Aaron Combs, Project Manager with Corporate Contractors Inc., noted the use of precast allowed him to have teams working on lower floors while Mid-States Concrete Industries was setting the higher floors, which helped keep the jobsite moving.