Sardili Produce & Dairy Co. Inc. has decided to forego expanding in Hartford’s South Meadows industrial section and instead build a 202,400-square-foot distribution facility in East Windsor.
The Hartford Business Journal reports that the company had been looking to expand its operations in the massive pre-cut produce space, and may have been attracted by East Windsor’s dramatically lower taxes. The company had submitted a bid to build a 100,000-square-foot distribution center on undeveloped land at 100 Reserve Road in South Meadows, owned by the quasi-public Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority, but later withdrew.
Sardili is one of the region’s largest produce distributors, the paper notes. The company’s current home at 212 Locust St. was built in about 1960, sits on 1.8 acres and has a Grand List fair market value of $762,100, according to city property records.