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New Fulfillment Center for Lost Art Press
This week we will move our order-fulfillment operation and warehouse to a nearby structure with more than 8,000 square feet of space, plus a loading dock and dedicated space for tool assembly and production of glue and our soft wax finish.
So if you place an order this week, it might be delayed several days as we move everything into the new space. Apologies for this short interruption in service.
We are not abandoning our Anthe headquarters and storefront on Madison Avenue in Covington. In fact, moving our fulfillment operations will allow a lot of good things to happen at our circa-1890 factory building.
Most important, we will have space for a huge number of books at the new warehouse, which is only a couple miles from Anthe in neighboring Newport, Kentucky. This will allow us to deepen our stock of our existing titles and to stop playing the endless game of Tetris at Anthe whenever a new shipment of books arrives.
Why did we run out of space at Anthe so quickly? I donβt like to speak ill of people who cannot count, but an inventory audit at out last fulfillment center was sub-optimal in the βadditionβ department. We needed more space than we thought.
The new warehouse, which I now dub βBeacon,β1 will fix all those problems. And there is lots of room for growth at Beacon because we will be able to stack books higher than one pallet.
So what will happen at Anthe? Lots.
The storefront will continue to operate on the first floor. And we hope to have it open six days each week by the end of the year.
We plan to rearrange the storefront and re-open the passageway between the storefront and the picking floor at the rear of the first floor. Why? Because that is where a new woodworking school will go. Details to follow on the school.
The second floor of Anthe will become our print production offices. As I have mentioned earlier, we plan to use Risograph machines to print some of our titles. We need room for these machines, the paper to feed them and (eventually) the machines to bind and finish books. Our current editorial offices there will remain. The only big change is that we will move tool production to Beacon. Right now, we are assembling hammers and finishing Crucible tools in the same space we are editing books and printing full-size plans and scanning images and signing books and rooting out typos. Itβs cramped up there.
What about the third floor of Anthe and the basement? For me, that is the huge news. We have no plans for the space. We are going to sit on it and use it to grow LAP. We could put in a bunkroom for students. Or an apartment for visiting instructors. Or a machine room for ourselves.
Or a petting zoo.
Iβm just happy to have some space to think and dream with. For the entire 19-year history of LAP, we have been pressed for space. For now, we have some room.
β Christopher Schwarz
1 The warehouse facility was built for Beacon Printing about 37 years ago. That is one of the reasons it perfectly serves our needs.
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