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STP Products Manufacturing Co. plans to build a 570,000-square-foot distribution site at the Dayton International Airport, creating 345 new jobs and an array of potential future uses for the location, state documents show.
The Dayton Daily News was the first to report Monday what has been a secret among local economic development and company officials. The company’s name and its plans for a $33 million center were revealed in a request for $660,000 in road-work money by the Ohio Development Services Agency on behalf of the Montgomery County Transportation Improvement District.
“That is the company,” Erik Collins, development director for Montgomery County, said Monday. He said county officials will have more to say about the project later.
Dubbed by local officials in recent weeks as “Project Gloss” to protect the company’s identity, the airport project will have future uses — a manufacturing component and, in its second year, a research and development component, Ford Weber, economic development director with the city of Dayton, has said recently.
A message left with Spectrum Brands Holdings Inc. — owner of the STP brand — was not returned.
The planned roadwork will include reconstruction and widening of approximately 3,750 feet of Concorde Drive, according to state documents.
The roadway also will consist of the installation of a new traffic signal at the intersection of Concorde and National Road, the request says. Improvements will be meant to provide access for trucks and cars to the new distribution facility.
With the completion of the roadway, additional acreage will be accessible for development. The roadwork will include roadway excavation, additional drainage conduit and storm and sanitary sewer systems, curb and gutter construction, full depth asphalt stabilization, erosion control, and roadway paving.
Last month, the $33 million project won $350,000 in Montgomery County ED/GE (Economic Development/Government Equity) funds. But county and Dayton officials have tried to keep the name of the company private since then.
STP has long been known for oil additives, fuel additives and brake and power steering fluids.
Middleton, Wisc.-based Spectrum Brands Holdings is a consumer products company that owns brands offering auto care products, consumer batteries, lawn, garden and home pest control products and more.
Its brands include STP, Armor All, Rayovac, Weiser, Baldwin, IAMS and more, brands available in more than one million stores in approximately 160 countries, the company says.
Spectrum said it generated net sales of about $4.69 billion in fiscal 2015.
STP Products Manufacturing Co. will be the second large distributor to locate near the Dayton airport. Procter & Gamble located a large distribution center in Union at the Union’s Global Logistics Air Park in 2015.
The distribution center is part of P&G’s strategy of consolidating shipping and packaging operations into fewer distribution centers to cut costs and speed up delivery times.
The $90 million facility located near the Dayton airport is one of six P&G distribution centers the company constructed in Ohio, Texas, California, Georgia, Illinois and Pennsylvania.
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