Plans show the five-story building on the northern part of the site would consist of a 650,000-square-foot ground level and four additional floors of 606,750 square feet each, to house the company’s “unique and innovative storage system.”
The first floor of the concrete-and-steel building would contain a rectangular warehouse of 580,000 square feet, aligned to match the footprint of the upper floors, with material handling and sorting equipment. The perimeter of the ground level would feature offices, a staging area, a receiving area and a shipping area.
Each of the upper floors will be mostly occupied by about 450,000 square feet of consumer products storage area surrounded by a fence, with employees located in the remaining space around the perimeter of each floor between the fence and the walls.
The site is already zoned as “heavy industrial,” making it suitable for storage and distribution, freight-forwarding and long-distance trucking terminals. It’s also been designated as a “Build-Now Shovel-Ready” site by the state since August 2012, with the necessary utilities and infrastructure already in place, and an initial environmental review was already completed in December 2011, although the developer plans to update it.
Both town and regional economic development officials have long targeted the land for redevelopment. The town even “reached out regarding the suitability of this site for the project, noting the site’s prime location and the town’s strong history in the development of a manufacturing base and workforce,” according to Nason’s letter.
