RPI shop burned down!
 

I'm friends with them on Facebook (RPI Designs LLC). I just read this morning their shop burned to the ground. They posted pictures. Here's one of them.

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I posted a sticky on the top of this section as well as several others

Yeah, I saw that after I posted this. I'm sure there are a lot of members that skip past the stickys.

yep...which is why I am not closing threads.

trying to avoid the inevitable, "been trying to reach RPI for 5 days does anyone know what happened" threads

I dont know. Their twitter page says the same thing as their FB page. I'm sure Josh will post here when he recovers from heartache.

Wow. That truly sucks. Great vendor.:(

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I'm in shock! I just ordered from them last Friday and received the part promptly. Josh quickly responded to a concern I had.

They seemed to be a great vendor. Best wishes for them! That really sucks!

Dear Fellow Corvette Fans,

Renee and I received terrible news as about 4:30am this morning that our shop had caught fire. I threw on some clothes and took the 5 minute drive to the shop. When I got there the fires was almost out, but the entire structure was nearly burned to the ground.

We had insurance on the building and on the inventory. We are rebuilding.

As many of you know, we are busier than we have even been with painted part orders and carbon fiber orders. This won't help that situation. I have made a few calls today to find a place to rent, where we can setup shop until the new shop gets rebuilt. I understand if you are unable or unwilling to wait for your painted parts to ship out. Our phones will be open on Monday, 888.257.8515 ext 2 (Don), if you need information on your order.

If you have an order pending with us, we are doing to do our best to get up and running as quickly as possible again. But please expect 2-3 weeks for this to happen. Once that happens we will start to paint what we can. Please keep in mind, we had 6 paint booths at the old shop and will most likely have 2 paint booths to start at the rental location, until we get the shop built again.

We are going to go on our website today and remove the option to purchase any painted or carbon fiber parts, until we get running smoothly. We will still ship other parts out like we normally did, either drop shipped from the manufacturer, or with orders that are rolling in each day for our normal inventory.

We might be asking for some of our parts back from you guys, so we can re-build our molds and continue to make new products in fiberglass. I'll edit this post and let you guys know what parts we need back in our hands (on a loan) to copy and build new molds, so we can pick up the pieces and start over.

RPI Designs currently has 18 employees not counting Renee and I. We are all going to work to make RPI stronger than ever and appreciate your patience with us as we move forward.

Thank you
Josh and Renee Greenawalt
RPI Designs, LLC

So sorry to hear this, truly wish you the best in rebuilding, you offer a great line of products. I own several from you.
:cheers:David

Sorry to hear the news. You'll be up and running again before you know it. Good luck with the rebuild.

Wow, that's a tough lick, so sorry to hear.

Attitude is 99% of the battle,...sounds like you folks will land on your feet and running.

Lemons>>>lemonade.

All the best.
Chuck

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So sorry to hear about this. I have many parts purchased from RPI.

I hope for a speedy and complete rebuild of their shop, better than ever.

Good Luck with the rebuild Josh. I have a whole lot of your stuff riding around on my car too.

Sucks to hear about this. I can say I can similarly relate to it and it hurts. Jan 2001 our family used dealership that my dad started burned to the ground total losing the whole shop, 4 cars, plus extensive damages to over 25 others. Literally the back sides of every car melted off to some degree the fire was that hot. Matters made worse was the $10k+ in keys that had to be made afterwards (could have be avoided before the fire was 1/2 structure but wasn't allowed to)

Best wishes. It will get easier after some time

Sorry to hear this. I'm sure you will be back stronger than ever!

Terrible news Josh. Good luck with everything.

Man terrible news, that is every one of us that owns a business worst nightmare

Don't worry just glad everyone is ok and trust me WE WILL STICK WITH YOU.

In our thoughts buddy

Best of luck with the rebuild Josh, glad you had insurance!!:thumbs:

:( Sorry to hear.

Same here, and I will be buying more once your up and running.

Very sorry to hear this.

Hope you're rebuild goes quickly/smoothly.

So sorry to hear about your loss. You will be back up and doing business soon. I have a lot of your parts no my car. I will continue to buy from you in the future.

:sadangel: If y'all need anything feel free to let us know!

RPI is one of our best Forum vendors. It is always a shame to hear something like this has happened to one of our Forum family. It is great the there is insurance to cover most of the loss, but as we all know there is never enough to cover everything destroyed or damaged. I hope Josh gets everything back up and running soon. thumbs:

I echo this wish for your rebuilding and continued success.:cheers::thumbs:

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Wow Josh, I'm sorry to hear what happened. I know you will bounce back from this unfortunate event. I wish you the best! :thumbs:

They posted a picture of a really nice possible location on fb. Looks like a big step up from the one that burned.

Yes, they will be missed!

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Bummer! Hopefully you can get back up and running quickly.

Thanks guys. We really appreciate all the kind comments. We are certainly going to get up and running quickly. We have located an old Ford Dealership that is about 14,000 square feet, our old place is 8,000 or so - we were running out of room at the old place and talking about expanding in 2015 possibly. Our hand has been forced at this point. The new building is very expensive and we are going to have to put a lot of capital to work, but we are very committed in this business and want to get up and running quickly. The Ford Dealership has a paint booth setup and we could get rolling quickly.

For the time being we are going to start painting at our old location to fill orders, at a much slower pace than we previously were able to do. Thank you guys again, we appreciate the prayers, thoughts and everyone sticking by us during this rebuilding process.

Josh and Renee Greenawalt
Owners
RPI Designs, LLC

We aren't going anywhere! We will be open for business on Monday, smaller scale for a few weeks, but we are still in business :thumbs:

since they have insurance there is nothing to worry about and they'll back to work, sorry for your lose and the building can come back easily thanks god no one was in there.


best,
Mubarak.

Glad no one was injured, and definitely glad to hear you were fully insured. Too many good companies hit the floor by cutting insurance corners.

Heres to getting back on your feet! :cheers:

Just got my Z06 Front Splash guards yesterday...WoW

:ack:So sad to hear about this!!!

Wow. Sorry to hear Josh.

Hope you are up and running soon!!

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Thanks guys. Possible new location:

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Best of luck in getting back on your feet as soon as possible.

Sorry to hear about the fire. It sounds like you had your bases covered and we're hoping to see you back up and running soon. I've bought from you in the past and will in the future. Great forum vendor! :cheers::flag:

Regardless of past issues...I myself don't like to see this...Glad everyone is OK... Rebuilding process will take time but you guys will probably come out stronger ...All the best to you guys !!!

Sorry to hear this. Good Luck with the rebuild .

best of luck,sorry for your loss!

Sorry for your loss. Very disappointing.

Wow that is a bummer and hope they are up and running soon for everyone.

So sorry to hear the bad news. God speed your recovery. :thumbs:

Update, we are putting an offer on this building today..

If we can agree on a price, we'll close quickly and have DOUBLE the room of our old shop..

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