Stellar Wins First-Ever DBIA Award for Bell & Evans Project

Stellar awarded with National Award of Merit in the Industrial, Process, and/or Research Category

Stellar's achievements continue to shine as the firm announced its seventh consecutive victory at the Associated Builders & Contractors (ABC) – Florida First Coast Chapter Awards for Excellence in Construction (EIC). This year marks an unbroken winning streak since 2017.

Stellar is proud to announce the completion of an innovative Italian meats and charcuterie production facility for Swift Prepared Foods, a subsidiary of JBS USA, and its Principe Italia brand. The $200-million, state-of-the-art facility in Columbia, Missouri, leans on cutting-edge automation technology, a one-of-a-kind curing process and more than 100 employees to produce millions of pounds annually of a variety of high-quality dry-cured meats, including salami, pepperoni, prosciutto, pancetta and coppa.

Stellar has completed its design-build renovation for Crown Bakeries in Smyrna, Georgia. The nearly $5 million project expanded manufacturing floorspace at the processing facility, tripled the research and development center by adding an innovation lab, and expanded employee welfare, offices and café facilities.

Associated Builders and Contractors has recognized Stellar with a 2022 National Safety Excellence Award. Neil Ross, Vice President of Safety, and Zach Mitchell, Assistant Corporate Safety Manager, accepted the award on behalf of Stellar’s Safety Team at the 33rd annual Excellence in Construction Awards March 16, 2023, in Kissimmee, Florida.

Stellar has reached major milestones in the construction of multiple new fire stations for the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department (JFRD).

Stellar’s Industrial Solutions group is ushering in a new era of leadership.

Stellar, a fully integrated firm focused on design, engineering, construction and mechanical services worldwide, has announced four executive and officer promotions.

Stellar is welcoming a new era in the company's executive leadership. The Jacksonville-based design, engineering, construction and mechanical services firm has named Brian Kappele chief executive officer, effective Jan. 1, 2023.

Rosina Food has opened a new $73.2-million meat processing facility designed and constructed by Stellar. The 105,000-square-foot building includes a high-speed, state-of-the-art meatball and sausage processing line.

Stellar announces completion and opening of Rubix Foods Innovation Center in Jacksonville, Florida. Rubix is a leading culinary and food science-focused provider of flavor and functional ingredients.

Stellar is the Construction Manager at-Risk for the University of Florida College of Design Bruno E. and Maritza F. Ramos Collaboratory. Groundbreaking is set for October 6, 2022.

Stellar announces promotion of Richard Lovelace to Executive Vice President and promotion of Kurt Warzynski to Senior Vice President.

Stellar and Dot Foods celebrated the groundbreaking of another new distribution center in Manchester, Tennessee on 8/25/2022. This 179,000 square foot, design-build project is one of many over our 25-year relationship and includes employee health clinic, cold docks and ammonia refrigeration system.

Stellar has received three Excellence in Construction Awards from the Florida First Coast Chapter of the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC). Winners were recognized on Aug. 5 during an award ceremony at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront.

Stellar's latest design-build project for Bell & Evans wins Food Engineering magazine's Food Plant of the Year award, the second one for a Bell & Evans and Stellar collaboration.

Stellar has been awarded a design-build meat processing facility expansion project for Jack Link’s Protein Snacks. The project adds warehouse capacity to Jack Link’s existing distribution facility in the form of a highly automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS).

Stellar has relaunched the Food for Thought blog with a modern, content-centric design that features improved organization and a more user-friendly experience. Subscribers will also notice a refreshed look to the blog's biweekly email update, which will now include even more useful content with each edition.

Stellar breaks ground on new Fire Station 65 to serve residents of Jacksonville’s Arlington neighborhood starting this fall. The 3-bay station is sustainably designed to meet Florida Green Building Coalition standards.

Stellar completed a 12,000-square-foot freezer conversion to a seafood processing and packaging facility for Beaver Street Fisheries, Inc. (BSF) seafood packaging facility in Jacksonville, Florida.