NORTH JACKSON — Midwestern home improvement store Menards recently filed a permit application with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, signaling that the company is interested in building a $50,000,000 distribution center in Jackson Township.

The company also is looking at other sites, away from the Valley. But here, the proposed site would be located North of Interstate 76, east of Bailey Road and west of the railroad tracks.

The permit application calls for two distribution facilities and four manufacturing facilities, totaling 90 acres. The facility would bring an estimated 90 “new and continuing” jobs to the area, around $3,400,000 annually in payroll, and $1,604,250 in payroll taxes, the permit said.

Jacskon Township Trustee Tom Frost said there hasn’t been “a whole lot of discussion” between the township and the company, but the prospect of the facility is exciting.

“Obviously when you get a national company looking into your community, that’s pretty exciting,”said Frost. “We look forward to them coming in and being a good neighbor.”

Frost said the company will have to go through the township’s zoning process before a facility could be built, but the site in question is already zoned for industrial use.

Menards, in business since 1958, has more than 300 stores in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Wyoming, according to its website. The company is headquartered in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

The EPA permit states that the purpose of a facility in North Jackson would be to “get the manufacturing and distribution closer to the stores” and provide for growth in the region.