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Santa Rosa County Lands 200 New Jobs With ‘MyHouse’ Manufacturer
April 25, 2013
Santa Rosa County officials announced Thursday morning that Priton, LLC will locate in the Santa Rosa Industrial Park in East Milton.
Priton is the manufacturer of “MyHouse” affordable homes primarily for the international housing market. The company recently purchased the former 84 Lumber location and has committed to hiring 200 employees over three years. The Santa Rosa County Board of Commissioner’s Economic Development Office assisted Priton in the application process for three performance-based incentive programs totaling $3.45 million aimed at increasing high-skilled, high-wage jobs in Florida.
The average wage for the new positions is $35,110 or 115 percent of the average county wage rate of $14.68. Along with the 200 workers hired directly, the new company is estimated to indirectly create an additional 380 new jobs with an impact over six years of approximately $51.5 million. The company is eligible to receive $2.35 million from the Industry Recruitment, Retention & Expansion Fund Grant Program, $600,000 in the state’s Qualified Target Industry Tax Refund, and a $500,000 Brownfield Redevelopment Bonus Refund as it meets predefined job creation and retention benchmarks. This is the first IRREF grant to be awarded in Santa Rosa County.
Priton. LLC is currently establishing an in-factory based manufacturing company that produces excessively strong wall panels that will be used to build “MyHouse.” Based on engineering testing, these houses will have overall strength performances more than three times greater than the minimum performance required by Miami-Dade code approvals. The Priton plant will load containers with the manufactured panels and will also include everything needed to build and occupy the house including doors, windows, appliances, cabinets, roof, floors, plumbing and electrical wiring. Customers will be able to occupy the home in seven days or less. Sales for these houses are currently in Caribbean countries, Central America, Mexico and South America. Priton has employed the management team as well as the first phase of manufacturing personnel and are currently hiring additional select positions through www.employflorida.com.
In late 2012, Priton began looking for a new manufacturing plant location based on its current sales focus geography and close proximity and access to container shipping ports. After exploring several locations, the company selected the Santa Rosa County Industrial Park site as the best location for its manufacturing and shipping operations. The availability of skilled personnel and veterans in the area was also a major consideration in the selection process.
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3 Responses to “Santa Rosa County Lands 200 New Jobs With ‘MyHouse’ Manufacturer”
All Escambia County Comissioners and Chamber of Commerce cares about are jobs at the Navy Federal call center.
mobile has gotten new industry santan rosa has gotten new industry escambia county hasnot gotten anything not evena minum wage industry GOOD JOB FOR OUR ELECTED LEADERS
This is how you get businesses to locate in your area. Maybe our county commissioners could take a lesson from Santa Rosa county and get some businesses in Escambia County!