Kansas City Ballet Awards Contract to Southwest Solutions Group to Install a Storage System

Online, October 18, 2011 (Newswire.com) - The Kansas City Ballet awarded a contract to Southwest Solutions Group to install a Spacesaver® Corporation High Density Storage Shelving System for storing their archives and dance uniforms. The relocation of the Kansas City Ballet to the Todd Bolender Center for Dance and Creativity involved the preservation and adaptive reuse of the former Power House at Union Station lead by the architectural firm of BNIM. "This project was a joint effort between the Kansas City Ballet, BNIM architects, and Southwest Solutions Group to ensure that the high density storage shelving maximized the building's floor space, while anticipating their current and future storage and preservation needs for archives and dance uniforms," said Aaron Reynolds, Manager of the Kansas Southwest Solutions Office.

About Kansas City Ballet
Founded in 1957, Kansas City Ballet is a 25-member professional ballet company under the direction of Artistic Director William Whitener and Executive Director Jeffrey J. Bentley. Kansas City Ballet performs three mixed repertory seasons per year as well as the ever-popular Nutcracker. The company also reaches over 15,000 Kansas City students and adults each year through its community education programs and provides dance training through the Kansas City Ballet School. Our new home, Kansas City Ballet's Todd Bolender Center for Dance & Creativity, opening August 2011, in conjunction with our new stage at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, is poised to make Kansas City AND Kansas City Ballet a true destination for dance.

About Spacesaver® Corporation (http://www.spacesaver.com)
A leading storage solutions provider, Spacesaver® Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets high-density mobile storage systems and an array of storage solutions and related accessories uniquely designed to help decision-makers better manage time, space, and security. Since 1972, Spacesaver has successfully installed more than 100,000 storage systems to solve storage challenges for those in education, government-military, healthcare, museum, public safety, business, and industrial sectors. A division of KI, Green Bay, Wis., Spacesaver employs nearly 500 at its manufacturing facility in Fort Atkinson, Wis. The manufacturing plant, which has earned ISO 9001:2008, encompasses 358,000 square feet. Sales, installation and service are provided by The Spacesaver Group of independent distributors.

About Southwest Solutions Group
Southwest Solutions Group is the largest innovative storage and filing solutions company serving commercial and institutional facilities throughout Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Tennessee, Missouri, and Mississippi. Southwest Solutions Group is a full service company providing equipment, design, installation, and ongoing service to all types of commercial businesses including government, museum, healthcare, public safety, military, and education. Additional information on Southwest Solutions Group is available at www.southwestsolutions.com