FedEx Ground is planning to close its ground transportation facility in Windsor by mid-April, and will redirect 133 employees there to other nearby distribution facilities, it said.
The company filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notice with the Connecticut Department of Labor and town of Windsor last Thursday saying it intends to close the building at 759 Rainbow Road on or around April 18. FedEx doesn’t plan any layoffs associated with the closure, the notice said.
“In light of current market dynamics and the growth of e-commerce, we are transforming our operations in many ways, including the integration of package volume in certain areas,” a FedEx spokesperson said in an email. “Current employees at the Rainbow Road facility will have the opportunity to transition into available assignments at other nearby FedEx Ground locations.”
Those locations include a 600,000-square-foot package-collection and distribution hub FedEx opened in Middletown in 2018, and a 220,000-square-foot distribution facility on Kennedy Road in South Windsor.
Windsor Town Manager Peter Souza was not immediately available for comment Wednesday morning.
The Rainbow Road property FedEx is vacating in Windsor is owned by Bloomfield-based Griffin Industrial Realty, state and town records show.
The 129,000-square-foot building was erected in 2006 and is appraised at $7.9 million, town records show. It’s not clear how much space FedEx occupied in the building.
FedEx occupies the entire building and still has some years remaining on its lease, said Tim Lescalleet, a senior vice president of Griffin Industrial. When the property does become available, Lescalleet said he anticipates “there will be strong demand for their building.”
