With Gov. M. Jodi Rell looking on, Stratford-based moving and storage company William B. Meyer Inc. broke ground for a 128,550-square-foot office-warehouse in Windsor that will expand its Hartford area operations.
About 75 workers, most of them transferred from other Meyer facilities in the region, will be employed at the facility when it opens in March 2010, officials said.
The building, which will feature extra-tall, 32-foot clearances will support all of Meyer’s business lines, which include storing household and commercial goods, library and industrial moving, off-site data protection and records management.
Meyer’s owner and President Tom Gillon said the 94-year-old family enterprise is expanding despite the economic slump “because we think it’s an opportunity we can take advantage of.”
Gillon declined to say specifically what it will cost to build and equip the multi-million-dollar facility on 24 acres of former tobacco land.
People’s United Bank is the project lender.
The Adkins Group, of Greenfield, Ind., is the contractor. Meyer, an agent for United Van Lines, also has operations in Bloomfield, Manchester; Chicopee and Franklin, Mass.; and Bedford Hills, N.Y.
