MONITOR TWP. - Some 200,000 square-feet of concrete has been poured for the floor, the concrete walls are up, and the new Fabiano Brothers Inc. beverage distribution facility is on track to be complete on Dec. 31, 2008.

The construction management firm CSM Group, its subcontractors and the building trades are building the new $16 million facility on 21 acres of the "Marketplace Corporate Center" business park at U.S. 10 and Mackinaw Rd. near Midland.

"Things are going great, everybody is working well together," said Robert Kitchen, project director for CSM, which is managing the project. "There are some really great trades workers on this site."

We first visited the site in January, when the trades were just coming out of the frozen ground - a former hayfield.

Fabiano Brothers Inc., established in 1911, is a beer, wine, and liquor distributor in the eastern, central, and northern counties of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. They will be the anchor facility at the site, and are moving their corporate headquarters here, consolidating locations in Saginaw and Mt. Pleasant. Their new location will give them easy access to U.S. 10 and I-75.

WELDING A TRUSS section at what will be the Fabiano Brothers warehouse is Tom Froncek of Iron Workers Local 25, working for Mean Erectors.