Triad on Short List for New Plant

March 26, 2006  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in on March 2006 As many as 1,000 new manufacturing jobs could be headed to the North Carolina's Piedmont Triad region, if the area is chosen as the home for a new $25 million furniture plant.

According to a story in Friday's edition of The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area, Location Management Services, a California-based consulting company, said it was in collaboration with a furniture manufacture to build a new 500,000-square-foot plant. Alamance and Randolph counties are reportedly on the short list of five possible locations for the plant that will be used by an undisclosed manufacturer.

The decision will be made by July 1, a company representative told the Greensboro-based newspaper.

The plant would be a boon for the area historically known for its manufacturing. The Triad – the area surrounding the cities of Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point – has lost more than 35,000 textile, apparel and furniture jobs in the last five years, the report said.