A Case for New

Mercedes Medical’s old offices — a hodge-podge trio of aging buildings the company had cobbled together to accommodate growth over the course of a quarter century — were so cramped that it had resorted to stacking boxes of medical supplies to be shipped in its conference rooms and containers to be unpacked from Asia and Europe in hallways.

But that sense of confinement ended abruptly in late December — two days after Christmas, in fact — when the company relocated to a new headquarters and distribution center in Lakewood Ranch.