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McDonald’s supplier prepares $30M center, 160 jobs for Valley
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The Vindicator ( Youngstown)
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, seventh from left in blue shirt, helps business, political and development leaders break ground for Solon-based Anderson-Dubose Inc.’s new distribution center in Lordstown. Dubose is building a $30 million, 155,000-square-foot facility at the Ohio Commerce Center in Lordstown that will bring 160 jobs to the Mahoning Valley. Anderson-Dubose is a McDonald’s supplier. The ceremonial ground breaking was Tuesday.
Warren Anderson, president and general manager of Anderson-Dubose Inc., says his company chose Lordstown to build its new distribution center because of its location and proximity to rail service.
Anderson-Dubose Breaks Ground
It’s been a good start to the week for the Mahoning Valley’s economy. A day after the announcement of at least 40 new manufacturing jobs in Youngstown, Anderson-Dubose Inc. broke ground Tuesday on a new $30 million distribution center in Lordstown. The project will bring 160 jobs and $8 million in additional annual income to the Valley.
By Karl Henkel
LORDSTOWN
It’s been a good start to the week for the Mahoning Valley’s economy.
A day after the announcement of at least 40 new manufacturing jobs in Youngstown, Anderson-Dubose Inc. broke ground Tuesday on a new $30 million distribution center in Lordstown.
The project will bring 160 jobs and $8 million in additional annual income to the Valley.
“These are good-paying jobs [with] benefits,” said Warren Anderson, president and general manager of Anderson-Dubose. “You can raise a family on these jobs.”
The Solon-based company supplies McDonald’s Corp. in eastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania and West Virginia with food and supplies.
Anderson-Dubose, which expects the project to be complete by April 2012, will merge two plants in Solon and Carnegie, Pa., into the 155,000-square foot facility at the Ohio Commerce Center.
The project’s general contractor is Streetsboro-based Geis Construction.
Anderson-Dubose joins other major Mahoning Valley distribution centers, including Macy’s, Things Remembered, Kmart and Toys “R” Us, according to the Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber.
It’s been a long time coming for the company, which originally sought to consolidate its two locations in North Jackson in 2009, but residents complained about a tax abatement and questioned whether the company would disturb its residential atmosphere.
Company officials then turned to Lordstown, which along with Trumbull County in May approved a tax abatement of 75 percent for 10 years on all new real-property investments, which saves the company between $300,000 and $400,000 a year.
“It’s centrally located, it has rail service, and the community wanted us,” Anderson said.
“We looked at a couple of other neighboring communities, and quite frankly, they were difficult to deal with.
“I didn’t want to put my business in a place that didn’t want to do business with me.”
The Solon-based company, a McDonald’s supplier, was welcomed by officials from Lordstown, the chamber and Gov. John Kasich.
“We’ve got a long way to go,” Kasich said at Tuesday’s groundbreaking.
“But it kind of feels like the sun is coming up [in the Valley].
“We’ve just got to keep at it, and I’m going to keep coming back to make sure we get it right.”
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The little creep had nothing to do with this company coming here and expanding. He should have stayed in Columbus and stopped wasting taxpayers money on his 24/7 publicly funded campaign.
It is good to see Gov. John Kasich involved and enthused over job creation in our area . Strickland only knew of us just before election time and quickly forgot afterwards .
The Trumbull County Commissioners, and others, have worked on this project for a couple of years, and now Kasich has the nerve to show up and try to take credit for it? Typical of him.
"Good-paying jobs with benefits" - yeah!! THAT's what this area needs. Kudos to those actually responsible for bringing Anderson-Dubose here!
It was the Strickland admin who helped this company get here!
Who cares what govt entity helped - they came and are here. Yippie!
It certainly is nice to see new investment here. Given our geogrphic location we should do more warehousing and distribution.
Save he criticism for those government entities that were uncooperative to Mr. Anderson and congratulations to the officials in Lordstown who did cooperate. What do you think Mr. Anderson would have thought of Ohio if the Governor had not showed up. Just keep hating everyone with an (R) after their name and don't worry about what is good for the valley. What a joke, Strickland did nothing for his home area yet the kool-aid drinkers want to give him credit.
Is this project being funded with federal bailout money?