Feasibility Study and Site Design

German-based discount grocer ALDI spent two years searching South Florida for a site for its 800,000-square-foot warehouse, distribution center, and corporate office. The discount grocer selected Erdman Anthony to prepare a feasibility study for the 73-acre site in Royal Palm Beach that the company ultimately chose for the project.

ALDI then retained Erdman Anthony to design the site, now known as ALDI Park. The assignment included designing and permitting the following:

• Left- and right-turn lanes on State Road 7
• A master sewer lift station
• A force main (3,400 feet)
• A water main (5,000 feet)
• A master surface water management system
• A roadway entrance and pavement design
• Earthwork to balance the site

The utility design was closely coordinated with the Palm Beach County Utility Department and the Palm Beach County Health Department. The effort included abandoning two public water supply wells that were no longer in use and installing a sewer force main at that location. 

The stormwater management plan Erdman Anthony designed resulted in the large roof area’s runoff draining directly into the stormwater management lake rather than co-mingling with the parking lot, which allowed for greatly reducing the dry pretreatment area needed.

Erdman Anthony’s water-main design helped ALDI achieve the needed fire flow for the large building by securing a route for an off-site water main needed to loop the system and meet pressure demands.

Erdman Anthony’s sanitary sewer design included a master lift station and an off-site force main to connect to the public sewer system. The sewer system serves the entire ALDI Park, which now includes future commercial and industrial developments and ALDI’s flagship store on SR7 in Royal Palm Beach.

Our roadway design also allowed ALDI to meet the traffic circulation needed by the delivery trucks by providing a left-turn lane into the site and a route through the adjacent commercial center to a traffic signal.

Erdman Anthony helped ALDI complete the project on time so that operations and deliveries could begin on schedule. Our diligence contributed to a project that had few RFIs, change orders, or issues during construction.