Gilroy said the closure aligned with a production ramp-up at Keurig’s Spartanburg, South Carolina, manufacturing facility. The Windsor closure “enables us to rebalance our production capacity geographically and advance our effort to operate efficiently,” Gilroy said.
The closure displaced 379 workers, according to a 2024 WARN notice required under the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act to be published within 60 days of layoff affecting 50 or more employees.
Schenley’s now-withdrawn conceptual plan had called for expanding the building by 781,000 square feet to create a 1.1 million-square-foot manufacturing space.
The roasting plant was designed to be expandable when it was built on 64 acres by Green Mountain in the county’s Shirley T. Holland Intermodal Park between 2006 and 2007, Sutphin said. It was sold to Keurig in 2012.
The former Keurig plant is one of several large warehouse and manufacturing spaces on the outskirts of Windsor the county is marketing. Sutphin, at the Sept. 9 meeting, said the Tidewater Logistics Center multi-warehouse complex county supervisors approved in March just outside the town’s eastern border had its subdivision plat approved on Sept. 5, dividing 154 acres fronting the four-lane Route 460 into seven parcels – one for each warehouse, a stormwater parcel, one containing a 14.9-acre public park and one for the historic Saunders house. Sutphin said the sale of an EDA-owned 83-acre parcel for $2.5 million to The Meridian Group, which would combine the land with two non-EDA parcels owned by Hollowell Holdings LLC to build four warehouses totaling 726,000 square feet, is on track to close in November.
Air Station General LC, the Virginia Beach developer of a facility codenamed “Project Air Station,” is also seeking tenants for what will be rebranded as “Virginia ColdDock 258,” Sutphin said. County supervisors approved plans last year for the 240,000-square-foot cold storage distribution facility, which will be the first occupant of a third Shirley T. Holland phase on EDA-owned land along Walters Highway, also known as Route 258. Sutphin said a closing date for the sale and a groundbreaking date each are yet to be determined. Meanwhile, the “460 Commerce Center,” a 325,000-square-foot manufacturing and warehouse space being built in Shirley T. Holland’s second phase, is expected to be finished this month and will be ready for immediate occupancy, Sutphin said.
