The History of Artistic Pools Corp

Back in 2001 Artistic Pools had this bright idea of becoming a fiberglass pool depot for the northeast. This idea came to light due to the high cost of shipping pools across the country. It never made sense, nor does it still make sense to ship only one pool to a job site out of Florida, Texas or Virginia. Michael and I decided it was time to invest into a piece of property to facilitate movements of pools from southern Maryland to Maine and into Canada. As you can see in the Pic above we received our first pool on a vacant 3 acre piece of grass we purchased for over a quarter of a million dollars. We thought buying the land was the hard part, but boy were we in for a big surprise. As you know, New Jersey is an expensive place to live and nothing comes easy in this state. The twp required us to get a variance in order to store fiberglass swimming pools. We were required to put up an office building, fence in the Lot, create a parking lot with handicapped ramps, get engineering plans approved, post performance bonds and maintenance bonds with the Twp, plant specific trees and shrubs, and list goes on and on. To make the long story short we got through the hectic Twp requirements, satisfied the banks and created the the largest and most successful depot to date currently offering Leisure Pools, San Juan and Crystal Palace. We started receiving loads of pools quickly and the need to grow became urgent. We bought our first piece of equipment needed to run this depot a 1996 p&F 22 ton crane.