James L. Miller Sr., principal at MBC Grings Hill, Schuylkill Haven, the group that owns the site in Pottsville, said the former building once occupied by Rubbermaid at 1410 W. Laurel Blvd., Pottsville has been put back on the market.
“It's up for sale. We've been making improvements. And we're leasing space there,” Miller said Monday during a tour of the larger buildings on site, a more than 150,000-square-foot commercial-industrial building on 11.6 acres. The property is for sale for $2 million. Leasing is also an option.
“We're looking for tenants who are industrial or light manufacturing or who need warehousing. In this building there's probably 120,000 square feet of warehouse space & manufacturing space and about 10,000 square feet of office space.” - James L. Miller Sr., principal at MBC Grings Hill
In January, a fire destroyed Material Dynamics LLC, 140 Walnut St., Tuscarora, a former sewing factory was used to make rosin and resin for the wax industry. Now that business is in the process of moving into a 34,000-square-foot section of 1410 W. Laurel Blvd., Eric Seitzinger, a realtor with Berkshire Hathaway HS Realty Commercial & Industrial Services, said Monday.
Miller, who is president of Miller Bros. Construction Inc., Schuylkill Haven, said his workers are improving bay doors and the ceiling there, as Material Dynamics moves in.
History
Locally, the building is also known as the former home of United Metal Receptacle Corp.
In March 1964, United Metal Cabinet Corp. bought the property on the northwest side of the intersection of West Laurel Boulevard and North 14th Street, Pottsville, according to the online Schuylkill Parcel Locator.
It originated in New York in 1919. It moved to Pottsville in 1955 and was incorporated as United Metal Receptacle Corp. in 1970. That year, it acquired Howard Metalcraft and moved its operation to United's Pottsville plant, according to the newspaper's archives.
In the 1990s, United Metal Receptacle Corp. had more than 150 employees and had expanded its operation at Laurel and 14th.
In June 2007, Rubbermaid Commercial Products, Winchester, Virginia, announced it had acquired the assets of United Metal Receptacle Corp., Pottsville, which was then “the leading brand in decorative waste management and smoking management products and accessories for commercial facilities,” according to Rubbermaid's website at www.rubbermaidcommercial.com.
On Feb. 12, 2014, Newell Rubbermaid, the parent company of Rubbermaid Commercial Products, announced that it would close the plant, which employed approximately 100 people, by September 2014. Rubbermaid vacated the property that October. Rubbermaid combined the Pottsville operation with one in Winchester, Virginia.
In July 2014, a partnership affiliated with Miller Bros. Construction Inc., MBC Grings Hill LP, Schuylkill Haven, bought the 26.106-acre property at West Laurel Boulevard and North 14th Street, Pottsville, for $950,000 in three separate deeds dated July 1, 2014, according to the documents filed in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds.
PUBLISHED: JULY 19, 2016 BY STEPHEN J. PYTAK, "Former Rubbermaid complex back on market", Republican Herald, July 9, 2016, http://republicanherald.com/news/former-rubbermaid-complex-back-on-market-1.2068251. Web
