From the planting of our first sod in 1978 to the acquisition of the Garden Center in 1990, Lurvey has grown to be one of the nation's premier Landscape Distribution Centers with operations in Des Plaines & Volo , Illinois and Whitewater, Wisconsin . The highlights of that growth can be found below.
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Landscape Supply
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1978
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Planted first sod |
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1979
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Sold first sod to sod brokers in the Chicago market |
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1981
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Krochels Nursery in Bensenville , IL was Lurvey Sod Farm's first customer. |
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1984 |
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Sales topped 0.5 million yards and 300 acres. |
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1986 |
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Sales topped 1 million yards. |
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1986  |
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| Purchased Lindemann's Garden Center and leased property at 2550 East Dempster Street from Ray and Marion Lindemann. |
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1987 |
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Constructed 24 x 30 wholesale sales office. |
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1988
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Purchased 650 acres.
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1989 |
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| Sales topped 2 million yards. |
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1990 |
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Added 40 x 85 poly greenhouse. |
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1990 |
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Produced sod in Whitewater and Douseman on over 900 acres.
Purchased Major Transport, Inc., a local trucking company with 15 trucks. |
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1991 - 1992
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Built 17,000 sq. ft. truck terminal and office in Whitewater and moved main operations there. |
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1994 |
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Changed name from Lindemann's to Lurvey's. |
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1995 - 1996 |
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Added 450 more acres, for a total of 1,500. |
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1996 |
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Purchased 20 acres in Volo , Illinois for second location. |
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1997 |
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Sales topped 3 million yards.
Added 10,000 sq. ft. equipment repair and storage facility. |
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1998 |
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Developed site and constructed 10,000 sq. foot building in Volo. |
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1999 |
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Open first full year in Volo. |
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1999 - 2000 |
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Purchased 3-acre Lindemann property in Des Plaines .
Paved parking lot and converted Lindemann house into retail store. |
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2000
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Changed name from Lurvey Sod Farm to Lurvey Turf Nursery. |
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2001 |
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| Constructed 40 x 100 greenhouse and connected it to our Retail Garden Center |
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2001 |
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Purchased first Trebo Automatic Sod Harvester. |
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2002
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Converted to measuring sod by the square foot. |
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2003 |
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Purchased 6+ acres with 3 office buildings on west side of Lindemann property.
Graded and developed west side of land for Landscape Supply use.
Rented west building to tenants and removed and developed east buildings for additional parking and outside sales use. |
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2004 |
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Sales reached 45 million square feet and 2,000 acres of sod were in production |
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4 Automatic Harvesters are in use. |
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2006 |
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| Landscape Supply took occupancy of west building for additional office. |
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