Precision Plumbing celebrates new Traverse City location with ribbon-cutting

Precision Plumbing Heating & Electrical marked its new Traverse City home with a ribbon-cutting at 3233 Cass Rd., after staff had already been working out of the former BATA operations center for months. The company moved into the expanded space last fall and spent the winter and spring settling in before Thursday’s celebration.

The event was listed for 3 p.m. Thursday, June 25, with food and beverages provided. A larger open house is planned later this summer, giving Bob and Leslie Roe a broader chance to introduce the property to customers, partners and neighbors across Grand Traverse County.

The move carries a real economic signal beyond the ceremony. Precision Plumbing and Heating Systems, the locally owned, family-run business behind the expansion, offers plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical services, and it said the new facility represents an investment in employees, customers and the community. Traverse Connect said the space provides "room for growth" and "enhanced training opportunities," two details that matter in a trade where the ability to hire, train and keep skilled workers can shape how quickly crews get to jobs and how many calls the company can handle at once.

For homeowners, that can translate into practical effects. A larger local base can support more service capacity, which may help with response times when a furnace fails, a water heater leaks or an electrical problem needs same-day attention. It also puts another employer in the county competing for plumbers, HVAC technicians and electricians, a labor market that directly affects how much work gets done on homes, remodels and commercial projects.

The Cass Road building has already gone through a major ownership change. BATA sold its former headquarters to Bob and Leslie Roe for $2.1 million, and the transit agency allowed the new owners to keep using the property rent-free until September 2024 as it prepared to move to its new headquarters in Garfield Township. BATA has described that new site as a transit-oriented development serving Leelanau and Grand Traverse counties.

That chain of moves left Precision with a larger footprint in Traverse City and gave a well-known local site a second life. In a county where service calls, construction schedules and skilled-trades hiring all feed into the same economic pipeline, the new Cass Road location shows how one business expansion can ripple through daily life far beyond a ribbon-cutting photo.