North Carolina company buys All Steel Carports, plans to open facility and hire 40 workers
YORKTOWN, Ind. — The All Steel Carports facility that was built along Ind. 332 but never used has been sold to a North Carolina company that plans to produce steel structures at the site and hire about 40 employees when full-time operations begin.
Northedge Steel, which has facilities in Rural Hall, N.C., bought the Yorktown site in May for $5.5 million and expects to invest an additional $500,000 as it begins its "official operations in August," according to a Northedge release,
"This milestone is a major move for the North Carolina company on its mission to expand its steel building operations into the Midwest," the release states.
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According to the Northedge Steel website, the company has a network of more than 500 dealer partners, servicing the Midwest and Southeast United States.
All Steel Carports built the facility at an estimated cost of $2 million and was planning to move its headquarters from 2200 N. Granville Ave. in Muncie to the Yorktown site in 2020 when federal officials charged its owner, Ignacio Chavez-Castillo, with "conspiracy to harbor aliens and to encourage and induce illegal aliens to enter and reside in the United States," and "conspiracy to commit money laundering."
Those charges were dropped by federal authorities in October 2021, however. According to a recorded message at All Steel Carports' phone number at that time, the company was no longer manufacturing or installing carports or other metal buildings.
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"We’re grateful for Northedge Steel’s investment and expansion into Delaware County,” said Elizabeth Rowray, president and chief executive officer of the Muncie-Delaware County Chamber of Commerce and Economic Development Alliance. “We are committed to partnering with them to support their sustained growth in our community,”
Ty Morton, spokesman for Northedge Steel, said the firm was not receiving any government incentives for the purchase of of the site.
The release said Northedge will manufacture and sell carports and steel buildings for residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural customers in Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, and Kentucky. Employment will include full-time sales and support positions, skilled-labor manufacturing and maintenance employees.
“We are excited about this new chapter and feel very welcomed by Delaware County and other local businesses,” said Yaritza Galvan, vice president at Northedge Steel. “We hope to better serve our customers, employees, trade partners and community with this new venture.”
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David Penticuff is the local government reporter at the Star Press. Contact him at dpenticuff@gannett.com.
This article originally appeared on Muncie Star Press: Yorktown, Indiana's All Steel Carports facility bought by NC company
