Our tendency is to raze old buildings and build something new and state of the art on the site. But with warehouses and DCs, that could be a costly and unnecessary move.

By Art van Bodegraven and Kenneth B. Ackerman

If you're familiar with Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (ourselves, we read the Classic Comics version), you know it tells the story of a portrait that aged, while its subject remained youthful in appearance. Our theme is the facility that superficially ages, while its functionality remains viable. (We will omit any parallels with the debauchery that permeates the book.) ...