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Featured Case Studies
Four Winds Casino Resort
New Buffalo, MI
Casino with 3000 slot machines, 90 table games and 20 poker tables. Also features six restaurants, entertainment bars, retail space, Kids Quest, a parking garage, and a 164-room all-suites hotel.
Minnesota Twins Target Field
Minneapolis, MN
40,000-seat, Major League Baseball stadium with six separate levels that include 4 lounges and over 60 suites.
Choctaw Casino Resort
Durant, OK
Casino expansion for over 3,000 slot machines, five new restaurant venues, and a new 330-room hotel tower.
Sample Projects
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Caesers Indiana Primary Distribution
Location: Elizabeth, IN
Client: Harrah's
Size: NA
Details: Modification and relocation of utility distribution elements to remove them from a floodplain. Also rerouted main incoming feeders to casino's main switchgear. -
Cargill Data Center
Location: Minnetonka, MN
Client: Cargill
Size: 11,000 SF
Details: New data center including primary service entrance, generator system, UPS systems, redundant PDU systems, redundant PDU whips to racks/servers, FM 200 suppression system, EPO system, VESDA monitor, general fire alarm. -
Choctaw Casino Resort
Location: Durant, OK
Client: Flintco Construction
Size: 500,000 SF
Details: Casino expansion for over 3,000 slot machines, five new restaurant venues, and a new 330-room hotel tower. -
Church of the Open Door
Location: Maple Grove, MN
Client: JE Dunn
Size: 150,000 SF
Details: New construction consisting of sanctuary, classrooms, gymnasium, kitchen, and site lighting. -
Cima Labs
Location: Brooklyn Park, MN
Client: KM Building Company
Size: 19,000 SF
Details: New office space and laboratory remodel. -
Cimarron Casino Renovation
Location: Perkins, OK
Client: Manhattan Construction
Size: 30,000 SF
Details: Expansion and remodel of entire existing casino, food and beverage, etc. -
Cray Companies
Location: St. Paul, MN
Client: CCP
Size: 40,000 SF
Details: Modify and upgrade existing office space. -
Fairview Southdale Perioperative Addition & Renovation
Location: Edina, MN
Client: Knutson
Size: 39,000 SF
Details: New and remodeled operating rooms, sub-sterile rooms, support staff areas, materials management, clean cores with new elevators and a soiled utility area with new lifts. A new 13.8kv substation along with a flywheel UPS. -
Four Winds Casino Resort
Location: New Buffalo, MI
Client: Christman/Kraus Anderson
Size: 280,000 SF
Details: Casino with 3000 slot machines, 90 table games and 20 poker tables. Also features six restaurants, entertainment bars, retail space, Kids Quest, a parking garage, and a 164-room all-suites hotel. -
Goldstrike Casino Resort
Location: Robinsonville, MS
Client: Pancoast & Clifford
Size: 364,060 SF
Details: Construction of three new restaurants, the 800-seat Millennium Theater, a porte cochere, maintenance building, and hotel lobby. -
Good Samaritan Nursing Home
Location: Stillwater, MN
Client: DJ Kranz Construction
Size: 50,000 SF
Details: Addition to existing facility including new patient rooms and common space. -
Grand Casino Hotel
Location: Robinsonville, MS
Client: Roy Anderson
Size: 200,000 SF
Details: Electrical design and installation for the seven-story hotel featuring 200 luxury rooms, an indoor pool, and a health spa. -
Harrah's Tunica
Location: Robinsonville, MS
Client: Roy Anderson
Size: 224,000 SF
Details: Low voltage design/build and electrical design/assist installation of the world's largest dockside casino including seven restaurants, two live entertainment lounges, a porte cochere, receiving buildings, and a central plant. -
Harlow’s Casino & Hotel Resort
Location: Greenville, MS
Client: Shaker Construction Group
Size: 62,000 SF
Details: Hotel consisting of 105 suite rooms on five floors, a full laundry, bar, main lobby and administration offices. Also installed hotel power distribution and the high voltage distribution for the entire casino site. -
Isle of Capri - Lula
Location: Lula, MS
Client: Roy Anderson
Size: 46,000 SF
Details: Riverboat casino featuring 1,350 gaming machines and 21 table games as well as three restaurants and a hotel with 485 rooms. -
Isle of Capri – Tunica
Location: Robinsonville, MS
Client: Roy Anderson
Size: 220,000 SF
Details: Renovation of existing 1,500-slots casino including gaming areas, food and beverage areas as well as construction of new state-of-the-art performing theater and 260 room hotel. -
Lucky Eagle Casino Phase I Renovation
Location: Eagle Pass, TX
Client: JE Dunn
Size: 40,000 SF
Details: Renovation of 1,000-slots casino including gaming areas and food and beverage areas. -
Minnesota Twins Target Field
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Client: Mortenson
Size: 1,000,000 SF
Details: 40,000-seat, open-air baseball stadium with six separate levels. -
Minute Clinic Headquarters
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Client: Welsh
Size: 50,000 SF
Details: Three-floor tenant remodel in less than 10 weeks. -
Minnesota Zoo Russia's Grizzly Coast
Location: Apple Valley, MN
Client: Mortenson
Size: NA
Details: Installation of outdoor fiber optics and copper cabling. System included a combination of six and twelve strand fiber throughout the park along with category 3 copper cabling. -
Mosaic
Location: Plymouth, MN
Client: Kraus Anderson
Size: 40,000 SF
Details: Modify and upgrade existing office space. -
Panera
Location: Plymouth, MN
Client: Panera
Size: 5,000 SF
Details: Gephart has been a part of opening 20-plus Panera stores as well as providing ongoing electrical service and maintenance. -
Protein Design Labs
Location: Plymouth, MN
Client: Westin Construction
Size: 30,000 SF
Details: Renovation of manufacturing facility for humanized antibodies. -
Ramsey County Public Works & Sheriff's Patrol Station
Location: Arden Hills, MN
Client: Mortenson
Size: 200,000 SF
Details: Facility includes office space, indoor heated and unheated parking garages, vehicle maintenance garage, outdoor salt storage building and fuel island. Work included overall electrical wiring, emergency generator, fire alarm system, security system and telecommunications. -
Republican National Convention
Location: St. Paul, MN
Client: Freeman Companies
Size: NA
Details: Temporary cabling for multiple clients including Fox News, C-SPAN, CBS, NBC, CNN, and many other well known news network companies that reported the RNC. This project consisted of data, CATV, fiber optic, and base band A/V cables. Pulled and terminated roughly 480 strands single-mode fiber, 100 network cables, 200 cable TV, and 300 base band A/V cables within a span of three months. -
Rosenblatt Stadium Sound System
Location: Omaha, NE
Client: College World Series
Size: NA
Details: Installation of a new sound reinforcement system and associated infrastructure in this 23,100-seat stadium. -
Sam's Town Casino Renovation
Location: Robinsonville, MS
Client: Boyd Gaming
Size: 105,000 SF
Details: Riverboat casino featuring 1,500 gaming machines and sixty table and poker games as well as four restaurants and a hotel with 840 rooms. -
The Cottonwoods at Grand Casino
Location: Robinsonville, MS
Client: Roy Anderson
Size: 24,000 SF
Details: Electrical design and installation of a plantation-style clubhouse, state-of-the-art control and maintenance facility. -
Windsor Plaza
Location: Eden Prairie, MN
Client: Amcon
Size: 125,000 SF
Details: New construction of five-story, class-A office building with first floor retail space, underground secured executive parking, two-level and three-level parking ramps, and two restaurant pads. -
Xcel Energy
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Client: Greiner
Size: 30,000 SF
Details: General office renovation. -
Xcel Energy Center - Low Voltage
Location: St. Paul, MN
Client: Mortenson
Size: 650,000 SF
Details: Construction of 18,064-seat, state- of-the-art NHL facility included commissioning of a 7,000 SF data center and over 30 communications closets. Termination and testing of over 6,000 category 5e/6 cables for wireless, voice, and data, 648 strands of multimode fiber, 108 strands of singlemode fiber, copper riser backbone cabling, and all A/V cabling. -
Xcel Energy Center
Location: St. Paul, MN
Client: Mortenson
Size: 650,000 SF
Details: 18,064-seat NHL hockey arena with four spectator levels, one suite level, and three general seating levels. -
United Bankers Bank
Location: Bloomington, MN
Client: United Bankers Bank
Size: 30,000 SF
Details: Remodel of existing floors 12, 14, and 15 in the South Point Building. The project consisted of 10GIG mult-fiber optic and RG11 backbone cables, category 5e and 6a data cabling, RG6 TV cabling, IP camera installation, telecommunications racking systems, and data cabinets. Over 750 category 5e/6a cables installed and Panduit certified.