New Ocean Spray Plant Taking Shape in Upper Macungie
Work continues on the complex, located at Boulder Drive off of Schantz Road in Upper Macungie.
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Construction on the new Ocean Spray bottling plant, located on Boulder Drive, off of Schantz Road, continued this week despite the cold weather.
The plant is located on 44 acres of land along Boulder Drive and will sport a plant of 225,000 square feet.
The $110 million project, which has the backing of Gov. Tom Corbett's office, is expected to bring 165 jobs into the Lehigh Valley. Ocean Spray is moving its operations to the Lehigh Valley from Bordentown, N.J., which is near Trenton.
The Ocean Spray plant is located directly across from the Bimbo Bakeries USA project, a state-of-the-art bakery in Upper Macungie that will bring more than 100 jobs to the area and produce bread and buns for the Northeast.
Parkland Parent
10:48 am on Thursday, March 21, 2013
"The $110M project which was FORCED DOWN THE THROAT OF THE UMT SUPERVISOR BOARD, by Gov Corbett's office". Rumor has it they sent folks to the township to "make sure" this was done. Another warehouse on Rt 100, how unique? I am sure the parents and children who attend Fogelsville Elementary will love that when it is up and operational. My child can play on the playground and breathe in more CO2 from the additional trucks already added to the 10,000 on that road. Job well done folks. Disgusting. More high end individuals as well. Suggestion...that school is really going to need to be considered for relocation. It is being surrounded by factories, smog and traffic.
Ron Beitler
5:53 pm on Thursday, March 21, 2013
All so politicians can have a feather in their cap to win elections because they "created jobs"... guess what? Regionally this is a net loss of jobs. Ocean Spray now employs less people then it did at it's Bordentown NJ plant the one they closed down to build this taxpayer subsidized plant. The Jersey plant was located just 60 miles away. Cost to taxpayers? A 4.5 million taxpayer funded incentive package. Corbett gets his feather in his cap.
This is job poaching plain and simple. What we need in this country is JOB CREATION
Here was my blog I wrote a couple months ago on this subject:
http://lowermacungie.patch.com/blog_posts/who-benefits-from-job-poaching
Bernardo
9:03 am on Friday, March 22, 2013
Suggest you Google CO2.
Cicero
10:57 pm on Thursday, March 21, 2013
Its a least another $500K in SCHOOL taxes in property that is zoned industrial.
You dont like whats happening get the zoning changed.
Ron Beitler
12:02 am on Friday, March 22, 2013
What about the new 25-30 MILLION dollar i78 interchange that will be needed to accomodate all the new distribution centers. Who pays for that.... Yup. The taxpayers.
No matter how you spin it we are the ones holding the bag.
Ocean Spray Employee
10:48 am on Wednesday, March 27, 2013
The article is wrong Ocean Spray will not bring 165 new jobs to the area. That number has dropped and a lot of employees from Bordentown NJ plant will be relocating to area.