Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, May 13, 1990                   TAG: 9005120095
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV9   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: KIM SUNDERLAND NEW RIVER VALLEY BUREAU
DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG                                LENGTH: Short

GROUND BROKEN FOR SERVICE CENTER

Groundbreaking was last week for a transmission and distribution service center on a 9.5-acre site in Christiansburg Industrial Park. The $3 million, 25,000-square-foot facility is to be completed by May 1991.

Apco plans to run engineering and maintenance out of the one-story brick veneer building, which will house work areas, offices and storage for line crews and other operations. Outdoor storage for transformers and power poles are also included.

The company will keep its customer service and marketing operations on Roanoke Street.

"By consolidating our transmission and distribution operations from two locations into one, and by relieving the overcrowded conditions that now exist in our Roanoke Street location, our employees' efficiency and productivity will improve," said Jerry R. Whitehurst, Apco's Pulaski division manager.

Whitehurst said that 23 of the 37 employees in Christiansburg will work out of the new center.