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June 24, 2009
The former Home Depot call center in Brandon has a new tenant: Vangent Inc., which plans to hire 800 to operate a Tampa Bay call center of its own.
The Arlington, Va., outsourcing company does most of its work for the federal government. It's subleasing the building at 100 Legacy Park used by Home Depot until January 2008.
Vangent has spent months looking for employees to, among other things, handle calls for Medicare and Medicaid. The company made $558-million in 2008.
The lease will help prop up an office market swollen with vacancies for at least the past year. Several other companies have also announced moves and expansion in and around Tampa.
Chromalloy Casting Tampa Corp. is investing $16.5 million to expand its turbine plant at 7030 Anderson Road. It plans to double its workforce from about 200 to 400.
Nortrax, a John Deere construction and forestry equipment dealer, is opening a 24,000-square-foot shared services center in Tampa. About 60 people will work there in fields like accounting, finance, computers and human resources.
Hillsborough County has recently approved several hundred thousand dollars worth of financial incentives to lure other companies. The name have not been disclosed.
With Vangent, the Tampa area has exceeded last year's haul of new jobs created with the help of incentives provided by state and local government. But while those publicly incentivized jobs paid more than $50,000 last year, this year's average wage is below $40,000.
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