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A 75,000 square foot
sportswear apparel manufacturing plant will be transformed into an
industrial cabinet manufacturing and warehousing facility in Chaffee,
Missouri. Tom Kelsey,
commercial broker with Lorimont Place, Ltd., who represented the owner
in the recent sale, said the former sewing plant built for Columbia
Sportswear back in 1989 and expanded in 1994 has been sold to S & W
Cabinets, Inc.
The Chaffee based
company is expanding its operations and presently has a manufacturing
plant adjacent to the newly acquired building at 490 Cummins Drive as
well as one east of town on State Route M.
Kelsey said the
building sale included 9.6 acres of property in the Chaffee Industrial
Park, located just off of Highway 77.
The industrial facility features 35,000 square feet of
manufacturing area and 40,000 square feet of warehouse.
Columbia Sportswear had closed the plant in the spring of 2000 in
a national cost cutting measure. The building was owned by Penzel &
Company and had been used for various warehouse storage projects prior
to the recent sale.
S & W began
operations in 1954 and has gradually expanded their wood products
operations over recent years. They
manufacture
custom wooden & laminated cabinets, counter tops & casework.
They sell and build custom cabinets and components for
commercial, industrial, institutional and residential applications.
Kelsey said the sale closed this
week. No sales price was
disclosed, but the Lorimont website listed the property at $1,150,000. He thought the new owner would begin occupying the building
sometime after the first of September. It was unclear about how many new
jobs the expansion would create.
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