Business View Magazine | February 2021

105 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2021 “We just kept knocking out walls,” Groat says. “We’d find these places with five-year leases, thinking we’d be solid but we just kept outgrowing them – I think we’ve done that six times now– and now we’re finally into the stage where we just leased a 140,000-square-foot grey shell building that we’re designing from the ground up to be built for our main facility. And I’m hoping that will finally last us, but we’re already starting to have concerns, so we’ll see what happens with that.” Safe Life Defense has also made a point to care for those in need through its Guardian Angel program. Since the company started about 400 vests have been donated. “When we first started Safe Life Defense, body armor was really only for law enforcement, and most companies would only sell to law enforcement,” Groat reports. “That left security, EMS, and firefighters just kind of out there without any protection. So it was really important to me not only to make armor available to them but also to provide it to SAFE L I FE DEFENSE CEO, Nick Groat