WINONA, Minn. – The construction company that built the new Fastenal office building on the riverfront next to the Courthouse county campus has turned the keys over to Fastenal. Employees are moving in. . The contractor, LaCrosse-based CD Smith, managed the 16-month project.

From the river-facing side. The 97,600-square foot. structure, surrounded by parking lots, is on Second Street abutting the Highway 43 bridge over the Mississippi River. Images: Steve Lunde

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Dana Johnson, corporate real estate vice president at Fastenal: “We felt that if we brought 300 to 400 jobs downtown, it would help Winona grow and prosper by attracting small businesses to the riverfront, encouraging entrepreneurship, and become a vibrant place graduating college students would want to move to.”

A legacy touch. In days of yore, before LEDs and neon, proprietors plastered the company name – with stencils, brush and paint – as high up a prominent wall as possible to catch attention. Such is what Fastenal has done on the west wall of its otherwise new 21st century office building. No inbound driver on the Interstate Bridge can miss the name.