Construction is complete on MidwayUSA’s new Roosevelt Corporate Offices Building, in Columbia, Mo., marking another major milestone in the company’s development of its 500-Year Campus. The state-of-the-art, two-story, 64,000-square-foot facility—designed to accommodate more than 200 employees across six departments—is now fully operational.
“We are pleased to continue to support the growth of MidwayUSA through our new Roosevelt Corporate Offices Building,” said Larry Potterfield, MidwayUSA founder and chair of the Board of Directors.
The staff from the Van Horn Tavern campus has officially relocated to the new building, which is located next to the previously completed Washington Distribution Center. The move unites all MidwayUSA employees onto a single campus.
Construction on the distribution center next door, which covers roughly 400,000 square feet, first began in 2020. By late 2021, MidwayUSA customer service moved into the facility, and the logistics department followed a few months later.
Meanwhile machinery, including a complex array of conveyor belts, underwent rigorous testing and fine-tuning for 15 months. Finally, in 2022, the site started fully processing all phases of inventorying the firm’s vast catalog of offerings and fulfilling orders.
MidwayUSA was established in 1977 by Larry and Brenda Potterfield on a modest quarter-acre lot and building with only 1,536 square feet of storage and display space. Business grew steadily, however, and by 1988, the company had moved to a 30,000-square-foot facility on 12 acres.
As word spread among enthusiasts, so did the space the firm needed to maintain efficient operations. In 2006, a neighbor sold the Potterfield’s 75 acres that seemed an ideal site to consolidate operations—a location that didn’t limit expansion potential.
The location was named MidwayUSA’s 500-Year Campus, because it was large enough to answer projected needs for the company far into the future—at least five centuries from now, anyway.
