Young Harris Water Sports & RV
Maverick Steel Buildings provided a 27,600 sq ft equipment dealer complex for Young Harris Water Sports & RV in Young Harris, Georgia: a 90′ × 120′ crane-served service center and an 80′ × 180′ showroom and offices, joined by a 40′ × 60′ breezeway. The service center was engineered for crane loads, with a boat lift crane installed.
Young Harris, Georgia
– The 40′ × 60′ breezeway connecting the service center and showroom
– The 80′ × 45′ mezzanine above the showroom floor
– A wood-framed front porch with steel accents retrofitted to match the building
– Crane-rated framing in the service center, with a boat lift crane installed
Buildings: Two, plus a connecting breezeway
Service Center: 90 ft × 120 ft, 25 ft height, 10,800 sq ft
Showroom and Offices: 80 ft × 180 ft, 24 ft height, 14,400 sq ft
Breezeway: 40 ft × 60 ft, connecting the two buildings
Total floor area: 27,600 sq ft
Mezzanine: 80 ft × 45 ft, 3,600 sq ft, above the showroom footprint. Not counted in the 27,600
Crane: Service center engineered for crane loads; a boat lift crane was installed
Overhead doors: Ten, 12 ft × 14 ft, in the showroom building
Front Porch: Wood framed, off the showroom, with retrofitted steel accents matched to the rest of the building
Design files issued: September 2021
Construction: Started September 2021, finished November 2021
Location: Young Harris, Georgia
General contractor: Landmark Construction
Young Harris Water Sports & RV was working out of undersized space. Outdoor storage stood in for a real service area, and there were no service bays at all.
They needed two things at once: a proper service area for boat and watercraft repair, and a storefront with a showroom and offices to sell from.
Two buildings, joined by a breezeway. The service center runs 90′ wide by 120′ long at a 25′ height, 10,800 sq ft, and was engineered for crane loads. A boat lift crane went in once the frame was up. The showroom and offices run 80′ × 180′ at a 24′ height, 14,400 sq ft, with ten 12′ × 14′ overhead doors for moving inventory in and out, and an 80′ × 45′ mezzanine above the floor.
The 40′ × 60′ breezeway ties the two buildings together. A wood-framed front porch runs off the showroom, its steel accents retrofitted to match the rest of the building.
Joining things together. Three separate elements had to tie into one building that reads as a single business: the breezeway between the service center and showroom, the mezzanine above the showroom floor, and the wood-framed front porch with steel accents matched to the rest of the building.
None of those is unusual on its own. Getting all three to line up with a crane-rated service building on one job is what made this one different from a standard shop.
Timeline: Design files dated September 2021, with construction starting that same month and finishing in November 2021: about three months from design to finished building.
Outcome: Dedicated space to repair and maintain new and used boats, on a frame built for the crane that does the lifting. Plus a showroom with room to sell, which is what they didn’t have before.
Not to the load a job like this needs. A crane-rated frame calls for red iron engineered for the lift, not just the span. The service center here was designed around that requirement from the start, which is the kind of job tubular and post-frame are not built to take on.
Different uses call for different framing. The service center needed crane-rated height and clear span for boat work. The showroom needed a lower, finished space with a mezzanine and ten overhead doors for inventory. Building them separately and connecting them with a breezeway let each one be engineered for what it actually does.
Yes. All of Georgia sits inside our erection radius, roughly an eight-hour drive out from the shop. Inside that radius we manufacture the building and put it up, so you get a finished building rather than a shipment. Georgia is one of our three priority markets, with South Carolina and North Carolina.
Tell us the width, the length, and what goes on inside, and we will price it with tax and freight in the number. Come with questions. No hard sell.
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