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After building fire, Innovative Signs setting up temporary home base until it can move into new facility
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Last updated on February 11th, 2021 at 01:00 pm
Innovative Signs Inc. is working to set up a temporary home base until it can move into a new building after a fire over the weekend destroyed its existing town of Brookfield facility.
Chad Schultz
The industrial building at 21795 Doral Road caught fire around 12:55 p.m. on Saturday afternoon, according to a news release from the town of Brookfield Fire Department. Its occupants were Innovative Signs and
Chad Schultz, president and owner of Innovative Signs, said half of the 12,000 square feet the company was leasing in the building was destroyed. Innovative Signs lost a 60-foot bucket truck, two work vans and three printers.