Facility to serve Boeing

Coming soon, about 100 new jobs to service the new Boeing plant.

New Breed Logistics will hire between 75 and 100 workers to operate a massive warehouse that will store and deliver parts from suppliers to the airplane maker, New Breed Logistics Vice President of Sales and Marketing Joe Hauck said Thursday from his office in High Point, N.C.

The Boeing plant is scheduled to open this summer. New Breed also supports Boeing’s assembly of the 787 Dreamliner in Everett, Wash.

New Breed Logistics expects to start hiring for the local warehouse around the first of May, Hauck said. The company will announce the openings in newspaper advertisements and through employment agencies, he said.

Eventually the operation will employ about 150 workers, almost all of them local, Hauck said. He didn’t have an estimate on salaries but said they include benefits and will be “very competitive with wages for the area.”

Besides employment, the company will spend $7.1 million setting up its operation, Hauck said.

In return, Berkeley County plans to lower the company’s tax rate from the usual 10 percent for industries to 6 percent, according to an ordinance that got initial approval at last week’s council meeting.

“We’re delighted to have that many folks have an opportunity for employment,” Berkeley County Economic Development Director Gene Butler said.

The warehouse already is keeping dozens of workers busy. Last week, crews could be seen putting up a fence, building a new loading dock and unloading sheets of drywall for interior renovations.

The warehouse is 475,000 square feet, Hauck said. New Breed will initially use 300,000 square feet, with an option to expand.

It’s on Northpointe Industrial Road, which comes off Henry Brown Boulevard south of Redbank Road. The defense contractor SAIC and a FedEx facility share the same industrial park.

The building is owned by Inland American Industrial Management of Oak Brook, Ill., according to Hagood Morrison with Colliers International, who handled the lease.

Inland’s other local properties include Azalea Square and Azalea Square III in Summerville (Target and Best Buy), Shoppes at Park West in Mount Pleasant (Publix) and North Rivers Town Center in North Charleston (Target), according to the company’s website.