Gateway Commerce Center, (formerly the Wampum Mine Storage Company and Wampum Industrial Facility) is situated in a non-active limestone mine in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. Natural limestone deposits in southern Lawrence County were historically only used for stone product until the 1950’s, when companies began to discover the security and constant temperature of this rock structure to be an ideal alternative to conventional surface buildings.

GCC was acquired by Bruce Wish Management LLC, in December of 2005 with the objective of undertaking a major renovation, conversion and expansion of the existing facilities. Bruce-Wish Management envisioned a completely unique and unmatched multiple use premium subsurface business complex.

Gateway’s physical plan consists of the traditional “room-and pillar” structure of huge limestone pillars up to 30 feet in diameter supporting a solid rock ceiling. The concrete block walls and stone ceiling are painted white for optimal illumination. Electricity, lighting, sprinklers, plumbing, truck docks, and specialized climate control systems are installed to meet each tenant’s material storage requirements. Buildings are climate-controlled to provide superior storage and working environments at a constant 62° (only slightly higher than the ambient temperature) and 50% RH. The subsurface is vibration-free and ideally suited for high-tech firms.

Gateway Commerce Center offers a total of 2.5 million square feet of underground space. Currently developed buildings total 1,100,000 square feet accommodating storage for all types of material, warehouse storage for perishable food and dairy products, industrial supplies and materials, consumer goods, classified documents and paper records, media and data, and vault-secured material.

Tenants come to Gateway Commerce Center to take advantage of a unique space with an impressive suite of built-in amenities, maintained at affordable prices and linked to a vast network of interstate highways. As a first-class, multi-tenant business park, Gateway Commerce Center is carefully planned to include important features such as access to space via truck entrances, tenant-customized electrical service, thorough security measures, a carefully-regulated safety concern, weather-free dock operations, and ideal environmental conditions.