“This is a big, big building,” said Tim Elam, a managing director at Scannell, a company that has put up more than a few structures in Northeast Ohio in the past decade.
Scannell retained Peak Construction, a design-build construction company, to build the warehouse/distribution centers on a site adjoining HC's existing plant in Middlefield. Peak announced the job in a news release and added that excavation of the site is underway. The project is scheduled for completion by September 2025.
Leslie McCoy, Middlefield administrator and economic development director, said in a phone interview that the project received village approvals last spring.
“We’re always excited that our businesses expand here,” McCoy said. “We take pride in being a business-friendly community. We try to be accommodating to business and to our residents.”
The project will benefit from a tax abatement under Ohio’s Community Reinvestment Area program.
Elam said Scannell acquired property next door to HC's Bonner Drive facility for the new warehouse and distribution center. However, the entrance to the new warehouse will be from state Route 87, McCoy said.
HC operates multiple locations in Northeast Ohio, according to its website. It's a portfolio company of Platinum Equity.
The Middlefield plant was for many years part of Myers Industries of Akron. HC operates six plants and warehouses in North America. It also has a warehouse a block away in Middlefield, and warehouses in Elyria and Warren.
The company did not respond to a request for comment by 4:45 p.m. Monday, Dec. 2.