Rite-Hite is starting to move employees from Brown Deer to its new Walker's Point headquarters. It will eventually have 300 workers.

Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Rite-Hite Holding Corp. employees are beginning to relocate to the new headquarters at Milwaukee's Reed Street Yards business park.
Rite-Hite Holding Corp. employees are beginning to relocate to the new headquarters at Milwaukee's Reed Street Yards business park.

Rite-Hite Holding Corp. is starting to move employees from Brown Deer to its new corporate campus in Walker's Point.

Employees from the company’s former headquarters, 8900 N. Arbon Drive, will begin relocating later this month, Rite-Hite announced.

Also moving to the new headquarters will be employees from Rite-Hite’s engineering facility and its service arm, Arbon Equipment, who are housed in separate facilities in Brown Deer and Milwaukee's northwest side.

The new corporate campus is on West Freshwater Way in Reed Street Yards, a business park south of the Menomonee River Canal between South Third and South Sixth streets.

Rite-Hite’s two-story south building will initially house 80 people, with 65 employees remaining permanently after the five-story north building opens in early 2023.

Roughly 300 Rite-Hite employees will work in the two headquarters buildings by March, a company representative said.

Rite-Hite, with over 2,200 employees worldwide, makes loading dock equipment, industrial doors, safety barriers and other items.

The south building’s technical training center also will open this month, with both sales training and customer visits occurring there.

The training center includes three working loading docks, with 12 different types of loading dock levelers and dock restraints, as well as 20 different industrial doors.

Rite-Hite expects the new center to host more than 500 trainees annually.

Reed Street Yards, which was originally established to target water technology businesses, has just one other building: the headquarters for commercial plumbing fixtures manufacturer Zurn Industries LLC. 

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This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Rite-Hite starts moving from Brown Deer to Walker's Point campus