Grand Design RV builds four new facilities, creates several hundred jobs

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) – Regardless of speak of a employee lack and a March unemployment fee underneath two percent, the financial development just proceeds in Elkhart County.

Grand Style and design RV supplies a very good illustration.

Grand Layout is making four new manufacturing and aid crops on its Middlebury campus. The corporation options to incorporate 700-new staff by the finish of 2023, which would depict a 25 % improve in its present workforce.

“The labor lack is real, and there are numerous distinctive industries that have a crunch on their labor drive, and staffing is difficult, and the price tag of labor has absent up,” Elkhart Mayor Rod Roberson advised 16 News Now. “But the current market adjusts simply because products are still in need, and we regulate to that, and we retain going.”

Grand Structure, on Thursday, held an enlargement celebration at its new 300,000 sq. foot facility off C.R. 17 in Elkhart. Ribbon slicing ceremonies there marked the completion of the job.

The enterprise will not build just about anything at the Elkhart facility, with the achievable exception of purchaser loyalty. The setting up is a support centre.

“We’re in the provider small business, we just transpire to provide RV’s,” explained Grand Design’s President and CEO, Don Clark. “We’ve moved into this practically 300,000 square foot facility which about doubles the capability of our provider, elements, and guarantee.”

Grand Layout now employs a very little far more than 2,700 associates.

“There’s just nothing like the RV field,” U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski, Indiana’s 2nd District advised the crowd. “Expansions, what you are accomplishing right now. Supplemental work opportunities that you are making and in the most significant careful hour of the lifetime of a place.”

Grand Structure CEO and President, Don Clark spoke with 16 News Now about the nature of the enlargement.

“We resolved that we weren’t likely to drive our progress,” Clark reported. “That our growth was likely to be dependent on the shopper retail need for our item. We haven’t forced any growth. We let the shoppers form of dictate to us, in the popularity of our items.”

Grand Layout is a very good instance of the bullish conduct heading on in Elkhart County, where by there are so quite a few industrial construction projects going on, it’s tough to retain track.

“Quite frankly, I like to shed observe, so the additional that have absent by means of the procedure that are ready to break floor, I am psyched about it,” explained Mayor Roberson. “I know of five of them that are earlier mentioned 100,000 square feet that are completely ready to crack ground so to discuss.”

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