Home builder NVR will build its new plant on Dunn Road.
NVR, a Fortune 500 company that builds single-family site-built homes, will build a new factory in Fayetteville and expand operations in Cleveland County to manufacture parts for its homes, officials announced on Tuesday.
The company is bringing 189 jobs to Fayetteville in Cumberland County with its new, $25 million factory, local economic development officials said. Another 58 jobs are going to Kings Mountain in Cleveland County, with a $5.2 million expansion of a factory there, officials said.
The workers’ wages are to average $46,510, says a news release from Gov. Roy Cooper.
Cooper’s news release said there would be a total of 261 jobs; the job figures from the local economic development offices total 247 jobs.
Cooper’s office also said the plants would total $33.9 million in construction, but the figures from the local economic development offices total only $30.2 million. Officials with the N.C. Department of Commerce could not be immediately reached for comment on clarifying the total number of jobs and factory costs.
Virginia-based NVR builds homes in 15 states under its Ryan Homes, NVHomes and Heartland Homes brands, its website says. The company has a home-building business and a mortgage banking business.
The state government has agreed to give NVR a grant of up to $1.635 million, spread over 12 years, if it meets new job and investment targets.
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New Fayetteville factory to employ 189
In southeastern North Carolina, the new, $25 million factory in Fayetteville is to open east of the Cape Fear River on Dunn Road, said Robert Van Geons, president and CEO of the Fayetteville Cumberland County Economic Development Corporation.
The 22-acre site is across the street from clothing maker M.J. Soffe’s former distribution center. Since last year, Soffe’s former distribution center has been undergoing a refit to become a delivery station for online retailer Amazon and a FedEx facility, the FCEDC said.
The Fayetteville NVR plant is to have 145,000 square feet, the FCEDC said. Workers will make trusses, wall panel systems, and other homebuilding components, the agency said.
The Cumberland County Board of Commissioners and Fayetteville City Council in June approved $827,000 in incentives to persuade NVR to build the plant here.
NVR and the site developer, RealtyLink LLC of Greenville, South Carolina, are working as quickly as they can to get construction started, Van Geons said. He did not have an estimate on when the plant would open.
“We are excited to have such a premier company choose our city for its expansion,” Fayetteville Mayor Mitch Colvin said in a statement. “We believe this project will have a significant positive impact in terms of adding jobs and enhancing our region.”
Cleveland County plant to add 58 jobs
In Cleveland County west of Charlotte, NVR has had a factory on the west side of Kings Mountain since 2002, said the Cleveland County Economic Development Partnership. The factory has 230 people who produce materials for 60 homes per week, the agency said.
The $5.2 million expansion is to add 58 workers, the agency said.
“Diversification in our job market has always been important for our community and NVR has been a big part of our strong industrial base,” said Kings Mountain Mayor Scott Neisler. “We are so excited that they have decided to expand their operations here, in serving the housing market, as they provide great job opportunities to our citizens.”
Senior North Carolina reporter Paul Woolverton can be reached at 910-261-4710 and [email protected].
