Just two years after building a new manufacturing facility on North Sixth Avenue, JELD-WEN is again expanding.
About 85 manufacturing jobs paying $12.50 an hour are expected to be created over the next three years through a new feeder facility for its existing plant, according to documents filed with the city of Yakima.
The Klamath Falls, Ore.-based window and door manufacturing company plans to spend about $6.5 million renovating an older building that was on the property when the company purchased the land several years ago.
"The quality of employees, local resources and the proximity to the other JELD-WEN facility made Yakima a great location," Randy Cox, the company's vice president, said in a Friday statement.
JELD-WEN employs more than 100 people in Yakima, according to Michael Morales, deputy director for the city of Yakima's department of community and economic development. JELD-WEN is also a parent company for Suncadia, an all-season resort community in upper Kittitas County.
Company spokeswoman Elizabeth Souders said she did not have a target completion date for the project.
The company is expected to receive a $1.5 million tax break for the project through the city of Yakima's Commercial Revitalization Deduction program, which provides tax breaks for businesses that construct or rehabilitate buildings in selected areas, Morales said.
JELD-WEN also received a $6.5 million tax break through the same program when it built its new manufacturing plant two years ago, Morales said.
Such incentives are important to keep big companies such as JELD-WEN, according to city officials.
JELD-WEN says it employs 20,000 workers worldwide.
"(JELD-WEN's) been a good national corporate name to have in Yakima," Morales said.
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