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Westrock coffee coming to Conway with $100+ million investment, 250 jobs
Posted on 12/16/21 at 9:45 pm
Posted on 12/16/21 at 9:45 pm
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Westrock Coffee Company announced plans Dec. 16 to expand its operations to Conway in the largest capital investment project in the city’s history.
Westrock purchased the former Kimberly Clark plant in the Conway Industrial Park, and plans to invest more than $100 million in the 524,000 square-foot facility creating 250 jobs.
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Westrock Coffee, headquartered in Little Rock, is the leading integrated coffee, tea and extract service provider in the country with offices in ten countries and operations around the world. Westrock sources its coffee and tea from 35 countries and partners with its local farmers to provide sustainable agriculture education and better growing practices.
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The Conway facility will be used to develop, produce and distribute Westrock’s coffee, tea and ready-to-drink products, and provide space for a product development lab to create, test and produce new beverages. The space will be designed to manufacture and package canned and bottled cold brew coffees, lattes, assorted teas and juice-based products.
Westrock also announced new developments in North Carolina and Malaysia.
“We are expanding our finished product offerings, adding end beverage packaging solutions, and expanding our geographic reach to meet our growing customer demand,” Scott Ford, CEO and co-founder of Westrock Coffee, said in a news release. “Our growth benefits everyone at Westrock Coffee — from our global customers and farmer partners to our current and future employees and the communities where they live.”
Fifty jobs will be created in Conway following phase one of the site build out — expected to be completed by early 2023 — with a total of 250 jobs over time.
The full build out is estimated to take the company 2-5 years to complete.
“This is an extremely quick repurposing of a facility,” Lacy said. “Especially one this large and specialized.”
The jobs created will be advanced and highly skilled positions with some salaries reaching more than $100,000.
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Posted on 12/17/21 at 1:45 am to hawgfaninc
If only CZ would finally start building their mega headquarters, and Central Arkansas would be having a hell of a business boom.
Posted on 12/17/21 at 6:05 am to hawgfaninc
They got any of them NIL deals?
Posted on 12/17/21 at 6:59 am to hawgfaninc
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The Conway facility will be used to develop, produce and distribute Westrock’s coffee,
I bet the smell there will be intoxicating.
Posted on 12/17/21 at 7:04 am to hawgfaninc
NW Arkansas gets most of the attention, quite rightly, but Conway is doing pretty darn well for itself thank you. If I had a few million laying around, which I don't, I'd invest in Conway real estate.
Posted on 12/17/21 at 8:16 am to Arksulli
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NW Arkansas gets most of the attention, quite rightly, but Conway is doing pretty darn well for itself thank you. If I had a few million laying around, which I don't, I'd invest in Conway real estate.
I’m all for putting Conway on all the best of the state lists. Get people to move there. Build up our recruiting base. Keep people from here. Plus we can’t keep local kids here, but everywhere out of NWA those kids want to be here. I assume because it’s close and SEC but also away from their parents.
Posted on 12/17/21 at 9:03 am to Arksulli
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If I had a few million laying around, which I don't, I'd invest in Conway real estate.
Just think if you had that or heck a quarter of it 30 years ago you’d be rolling. When I started at UCA most of west Conway didn’t even exist except for a trailer park or two.
Posted on 12/17/21 at 9:06 am to piggilicious
Won’t ever be anything if they keep it a dry county.
Is it still that way?
Arguably the biggest game changer of Bentonville in the last 20 years.
Is it still that way?
Arguably the biggest game changer of Bentonville in the last 20 years.
Posted on 12/17/21 at 9:14 am to STLhog
Yes, but liquor licenses are pretty free flowing these days. Again aging myself, 30 years ago you only had the supper club and the vfw I think.
It’s a pretty quick skip to either Motown (Conway County) liquor stores or Palarm and Maumelle. You just have to stock up when you go. As a resident of Conway County I hope Conway (Faulkner County) stays dry.
It’s a pretty quick skip to either Motown (Conway County) liquor stores or Palarm and Maumelle. You just have to stock up when you go. As a resident of Conway County I hope Conway (Faulkner County) stays dry.
Posted on 12/17/21 at 9:20 am to STLhog
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Won’t ever be anything if they keep it a dry county. Is it still that way? Arguably the biggest game changer of Bentonville in the last 20 years.
Keep it dry. We don’t need more people in Faulkner. Going wet would just attract more people from Little Rock and Morrilton
. Anyway Conway is growing crazy as it is, no need to increase it
Posted on 12/17/21 at 9:21 am to piggilicious
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I bet the smell there will be intoxicating.
Posted on 12/17/21 at 9:24 am to Arkapigdiesel
Posted on 12/17/21 at 9:29 am to piggilicious
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If I had a few million laying around, which I don't, I'd invest in Conway real estate.
Just think if you had that or heck a quarter of it 30 years ago you’d be rolling. When I started at UCA most of west Conway didn’t even exist except for a trailer park or two.
Hal Crafton has mopped up.
There’s still money to be made in Conway, but people are steadily moving out because of the growth. Which is causing growth in the Greenbrier, Wooster, Enola, and Vilonia areas. Lots of development currently being done in those areas, especially Greenbrier. Those are the areas to invest if you had to choose currently. Reminds me of where Conway was 30 or so years ago
Posted on 12/17/21 at 9:30 am to hawgfaninc
65 in betwixt Conway and Greenbrier is pure suckage when it's busy.
Posted on 12/17/21 at 10:28 am to hawgfaninc
US Steel also looking at NE AR for a potential 3 billion dollar investment.
Posted on 12/17/21 at 10:35 am to boogiewoogie1978
Like him or hate him, but Asa has done good work trying to lure business to Arkansas. I have zero faith in the next administration to do the same.
Posted on 12/17/21 at 11:29 am to hogfly
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Like him or hate him, but Asa has done good work trying to lure business to Arkansas. I have zero faith in the next administration to do the same.
Best Democratic Governor we've had in awhile.
Posted on 12/17/21 at 12:02 pm to boogiewoogie1978
Those jobs can pay up to $100,000 or more.
Posted on 12/17/21 at 12:21 pm to Arkapigdiesel
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65 in betwixt Conway and Greenbrier is pure suckage when it's busy.
Hate it- i used to have to work in Damascus occasionally and Friday afternoons when I’d come back thru Conway I’d feel like there was a 50/50 chance I’d make it alive.
Posted on 12/17/21 at 1:43 pm to Arksulli
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NW Arkansas gets most of the attention,
It has grown at a phenomenal pace the last 20-30 years.
Conway, Cabot, Maumelle, Benton, and Bryant have been growing, too.
Benton/Bryant is in a huge growth spurt right now.
Cabot has slowed down, but over the next 20-30 years I believe on 167 from Sherwood to Searcy will see a lot of growth.
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