Yankee Line Bus Headquarters holds topping-off ceremony

On March 20, 2025, the Yankee Line luxury motorcoach company put the finishing touch on the skeleton of its new Randolph, Massachusetts headquarters and maintenance facility with a ceremonial beam-signing and topping-off, complete with the construction industry’s traditional success blessing of an American flag and good-luck charm of an evergreen tree.

Members of all major parties involved in this first motorcoach industry design for The Galante Architecture Studio (TGAS) – which also included Boston developer Core Investments, Danvers building contractor Carr Enterprises, Wellesley technology consultant Secure Our City, and Yankee Line – donned TGAS hardhats and hi-vis vests to hit the construction site and inscribe their names in the annals of history. This event symbolized the many hands that have gone into this 60,000 SF undertaking, as well as the solid teamwork that stood behind TGAS’ design vision to realize it in the flesh.

“It’s taken a lot of hands to make this whole thing come together,” said Art Campbell, project manager for Carr Enterprises, to kick off the signing ceremony after Yankee Line President Don Dunham put his name on the beam.

“It’s fantastic to memorialize all companies on steel for the top-off,” said TGAS Founding Principal Theodore (Ted) Galante. “We’ve got a great team.”

This ceremony marks a milestone for a project two years in the works. When completed, which Campbell predicted will happen by the end of this year, Yankee Line’s first state-of-the-art HQ will put an entire motorcoach maintenance program under one roof. It will include an apparatus bay designed to raise two 54-foot-long motorcoaches for cleaning and repair, two separate wash-bays with automatic rollover washing mechanisms, a tire-storage carousel, a radiant-heat snow-melting system, and future electric bus-charging stations. This arrangement will enable Yankee Line to fuel, wash, service, defrost and dispatch its 80-strong fleet of motorcoaches faster on a 24-hour basis, rain or shine.

This required substantial acreage, deftly arranged by Core Investments CEO/founder David Pogorelc. “It took a lot of careful thinking and planning,” said Galante. “A motorcoach facility needs a lot of land, so you have to be imaginative about how you use it.”

The development of the Yankee Line HQ is just the beginning of a possible rejuvenation of its entire Randolph neighborhood into a thriving industrial and entertainment district.

Founded in 1997, The Galante Architecture Studio specializes in contemporary architecture, including bus maintenance headquarters and public safety facilities. To date the 30-strong firm has completed many institutional, commercial, municipal, and residential projects. Through active listening, focused responses, and unequivocal attention to detail, TGAS produces needs-based design results, while balancing design complexities with site pragmatics, program and budget.