Orange County Medical Supplies Firm Plans $100M Project
If the project is approved, Medline would retain its current 300-member workforce and likely add between 200 to 300 workers in the future.
MIDDLETOWN, NY—An Orange County-based medical supplies company is hoping to spend $100 million to expand its operations here. If the project moves forward, it would more than double the company’s presence here.
Officials with Medline Industries, Inc. say the firm has outgrown its 500,000-square-foot distribution facility on Route 6 here and wishes to relocate to a 1.2-million-square-foot distribution and logistics facility to be built on almost 361 acres in the Town of Hamptonburgh.
The company, which is headquartered in Northfield, IL, is scheduled to detail its plans on a site now called “Hudson Valley Crossing II” at a Town Board session this evening and ask the board to move the approval process forward so that it can begin work on a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the project. Company officials say the project will require a zone change for it to proceed. Medline plans to acquire the 361-acre site from Green Acres Development Group.
Zvi Segal, managing partner of Green Acres Development Group, had a plan to build as many as seven buildings and 2.3 million square feet of commercial space on the property that is located adjacent to the existing Hudson Valley Crossing I complex. Green Acres proposed in March two commercial buildings totaling 1.6 million square feet of space. The latest plan announced last week calls for one building specifically for Medline totaling 1.2 million square feet.
Josh Sommers, a spokesman for Green Acres Development Group, says the property is currently zoned for residential use and has approvals for 293 residential units. If the project is approved, Medline would retain its current 300-member workforce and likely add between 200 to 300 workers in the future.
Thomas Fallon, director of operations of the Medline facility in Middletown, says the company hopes to remain in Orange County and move to the new Hamptonburgh facility by 2020. He noted that Medline has sold its Middletown facility and is currently leasing its space there.
He adds the new facility would be built to LEED standards on just 93.2 acres and notes that more than 268 acres would remain green.
Fallon says that remaining in Orange County is the company’s “first choice,” but that it is also keeping “all its options open” and is reviewing possible alternative locations in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, as well as other locations in New York State.
Medline, which has a worldwide workforce of approximately 18,000 employees, has operated out of the complex at 3301 Route 6 since 2009 and has been doing business in Middletown since the mid 1990s.
The company is the largest privately held manufacturer and distributor of more than 500,000 medical supply products. The company operates approximately 40 distribution centers totaling 12 million square feet of warehousing space.