Located in the heart of the biggest concentration of population in North America, New York is within one day’s highway travel of more than 55 percent of the nation’s population and more than 60 percent of the population of Canada. Many of the nation’s major cities, including Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Louisville, Charlotte, Raleigh, Washington, D.C., Boston and Portland, Maine are within one day’s drive of New York locations. In fact, New York’s location has made it a preferred location for distribution activities serving the Northeast, Midwest, and Mid South.
The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), headquartered in Chicago, is a not-for-profit technical institute and trade association established in 1921 to serve the structural steel design community and construction industry in the United States. Current market share for structural steel in the non-residential marketplace is 59%, based on square footage of construction starts. 
