An Upper Macungie Township distribution center plans to close before of the year and lay off 70 workers, according to Pennsylvania’s Department of Labor and Industry.
The cuts are scheduled to go into effect Dec. 26 at Allen Distribution, 7058 Snowdrift Road. The confirmed number of employees impacted was announced this month in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Act Notice filed with the state department.
The notice is mandated by U.S. labor law. It requires companies with 100 or more employees to provide 60 days’ advance notification of plant closings and mass layoffs.
Carlisle, Cumberland County-based Allen Distribution was started in 1988 and operates as a privately owned logistics company. Its services include supply chain design, freight consolidation, custom packaging, temperature-controlled warehousing and transportation and order fulfillment, according to the company’s website.
The company continues to operate over 14 million square feet of warehouse space nationally, the website states.
Lehigh County property records and a commercial sales listing show the 525,000-square-foot regional warehouse sits on 32 acres in the Iron Run Corporate Center. The sale comes with 58 exterior loading docks, according to the listing.
Prior to Allen Distribution owning in 2002, the property was the site of True Value hardware. That facility in 2019 reportedly moved to the Wilkes-Barre area in Luzerne County. It sits in prime real estate near Route 100, between bustling Tilghman Street and Interstate 78.
It’s unclear what led up to the closure of the regional warehouse. A representative of Allen Distribution didn’t immediately return a request for more details Tuesday afternoon.
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