Maryland-based Blueprint Robotics wants to put up a high-tech factory in Windsor to produce building materials to serve the New England market.
The company is proposing a 462,000-square-foot factory along with a 90,000-square-foot warehouse.
If the Planning and Zoning Commission grants its approval, Blueprint would build on about 48 acres of former Culbro shade tobacco fields along Goodwin Drive.
Blueprint’s plan is to construct a factory more than twice as large as its existing plant in Baltimore. It would establish more than 100 jobs in Windsor, the company said.
“Blueprint is a manufacturer of technologically advanced off-site building systems for use in the U.S. construction market. Blueprint is dedicated to transforming the wood framed construction industry with its ‘A Better Way to Build’ approach,” according to the zoning application filed by Thomas Cody, a land use attorney with the Hartford firm of Robinson & Cole.
The company is heavily invested in robotic machinery and computer-assisted manufacturing, and a profile last year in the trade magazine Offsite Builder suggested that made Blueprint well-positioned to handle labor shortages and supply chain disruptions hitting the construction industry.
Blueprint manufactures panels for apartment buildings and condo complexes at its factory, then ships the completed parts to construction sites.
“Blueprint Robotics builds multi-unit residential projects with floor, wall and roof panels that include the wiring and plumbing runs,” according to the magazine.
CNC, or computer numerical control, machinery cuts and drills wall panels to fit electrical and plumbing systems for a variety of projects. Its portfolio includes three- to six-story apartment buildings in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Washington D.C. and elsewhere.
The Windsor plant would represent a massive expansion from its roughly 200,000-square-foot plant just south of the O’Donnell Heights section of Baltimore. Adding the new plant would reduce shipping time and costs to builders in the region, where multifamily housing construction has been a hot market for the past two years.
CNC, or computer numerical control, machinery cuts and drills wall panels to fit electrical and plumbing systems for a variety of projects. Its portfolio includes three- to six-story apartment buildings in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Washington D.C. and elsewhere.
“Blueprint’s Windsor facility will expand Blueprint’s manufacturing capabilities and bring its products closer to the New England construction marketplace,” according to the company’s application.
Earlier this month, the Planning and Zoning Commission approved dividing River Bend Development CT’s 62-acre property into two lots, one of 15 acres and the other of 48 acres. Blueprint has a contract to buy the larger one.
The land is just south of Day Hill Road and east of Goodwin Drive. Directly to the south is Amazon’s Old Iron Ore Road distribution plant, and to the east is the Fastpitch Nation.
The project would include parking spaces for 213 cars and 20 trailers, along with eight truck loading spaces.
In its zoning application, Blueprint said the facility “will create jobs and increase the tax base of the Town. The property is zoned for industrial uses, which indicate that the town desires to have such uses at the property and in the surrounding area.”
The company also acknowledges, though, that it would have significantly fewer employees than envisioned by the zoning regulation on minimum number of parking spaces. The town rules require nearly 800 spaces; Blueprint wants permission to set aside space for about 600 of those, but not pave that area unless its needed in the future..
“The proposed use is a highly automated manufacturing use that will not have the density of employees within the facility as compared to a traditional manufacturing facility,” according to its application.
“Blueprint will employ approximately 182 people – 140 manufacturing workers, 10 truck drivers and 42 office personnel. Manufacturing will be split into two equal shifts from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.,” it said.
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