Two national companies with operations in Duke Realty‘s Lebanon Business Park, a 1,250-acre industrial park located in Lebanon, Ind., have recently announced plans to expand their operations and hire additional workers in the near future. Purity Wholesale Grocers and CNH Global NV have both committed to expansions.
In early April, Purity Wholesale Grocers, a distributor of products ranging from frozen food to health and beauty care, dairy, dry goods and candy, announced plans to invest in a new 480,000-square-foot regional distribution center on 29 acres it purchased in the park. Purity has chosen Duke Realty to build its new facility, making this the third building transaction between the two companies. Duke Realty built Purity’s first facility in Lebanon Business Park in 1996 and expanded it in 2012.
Just a few weeks after Purity’s announcement, the product support division of CNH Global NV, an international manufacturing company, announced that it will lease and equip a 153,000-square-foot building in the park, raising its total presence in Lebanon Business Park to 1.2 million square feet in three buildings. When the new facility is fully operational, it will serve as the command center for CNH’s parts delivery system. CNH, which already has 500 full-time and 200 contract employees in Lebanon Business Park, plans to add 100 new jobs by 2014 and has already started adding to its staff.
