Foley Products Company
Owner: John Blankenship
Location: Seven Oaks Business Park, Smyrna, TN
Project Delivery: Design-Build
Scope: Tenant improvements and interior build-out
The Dow Smith team completed this 5,000-square-foot interior build-out for Seven Oaks Business Park owner John Blankenship and his tenant Foley Products Company. The project included converting an empty space into a finished open-air office facility. The space features stained concrete floors, custom cabinets, and lots of glass walls and doors to allow natural light to enter the open-concept environment.
Initially, Foley Products Company wasn’t quite sure what they wanted in terms of the design and layout of the interior space. To solve this, the Dow Smith team completed some of the tenant improvements while we also constructed the shell and core of the Seven Oaks building. This meant Foley’s design phase had to be condensed so that the entire project’s timeline and budget would not be affected.
After growing up in Washington State and working construction for most of his life, Joel Tellez wound up in Smyrna, where he became a superintendent for Olympian Construction. One day, he was sitting in the pickup line at Thurman Francis Arts Academy in his work truck when Dow Smith—who also had kids at the school—came over and struck up a conversation. A few months later, Joel was working at DSC. Last week, he celebrated 20 years with the company.