Firm seeks to raise the roof

Sutter Roofing will end the first quarter on a high note not seen in several years.

The heights stem from an industrial warehouse expansion project with Publix, the Lakeland-based grocery chain. Sutter Roofing, with a headquarters in Sarasota, installed a 600,000-square-foot roof on the complex, a dry warehouse filled with what the chain calls “low velocity” items, like shampoo. The roof is a $2.5 million project for Sutter Roofing, which had $30.2 million in 2011 revenues.

“It's very significant,” says Sutter Roofing President Doug Sutter. “There just aren't any jobs this size going on in the state.”