SJB Group buys building to house surveying division for $675K

SJB Group LLC, a multidiscipline engineering firm that often contracts with the city-parish, will relocate its surveying division to a warehouse it plans to remodel off of Picardy Avenue. SJB purchased the land from Triple P Summa LLC, managed by Mike Wampold, for $675,000. Alexandra Hughes, manager of marketing for SJB Group, says the new space will better suit the surveying division’s heavy equipment and trucks. “The surveying division has really been growing, and we’re excited for their new space,” Hughes says. The division has outgrown SJB’s current offices near the intersection of Essen and Anselmo lanes, but it was important that they stay close, Hughes says. “We do our work directly together. We work together all day,” Hughes says. The division does not plan to operate out of the new building until mid-January, to allow for time to remodel the 13,000-square-foot warehouse into 5,000 square feet of office space and 4,000 square feet of storage for equipment. A fenced-in covered garage for the surveying crews’ trucks occupies the remaining 4,000 square feet. The company will file to change the building’s current address off of Summa Court to 8401 Picardy Ave., Hughes says. The building shares a parking lot with the Cardiovascular Institute of the South. —Kelly Connelly