SANTA CLARA — Owens Corning has adopted up on its disclosures from a 12 months in the past that it will shut its Santa Clara manufacturing unit with a revelation that the corporate will chop tons of of jobs on the soon-to-shut plant.
The maker of fiberglass, insulation and roofing merchandise mentioned in mid-2021 that it will stop operations on the Santa Clara plant, which is positioned at 960 Central Expressway in Santa Clara. It’s the firm’s solely Bay Space location.
The ensuing layoffs will remove 225 jobs, in line with an official discover that the corporate filed with the state Employment Improvement Division.
The plant is slated to shut someday round Halloween of this 12 months, the EDD submitting states.
“As Owens Corning introduced to its workers and native union final 12 months, the corporate is promoting its Santa Clara facility and is discontinuing operations on or about Oct. 31, 2022,” Justin Depenhart, a plant chief for Owens Corning, wrote within the WARN discover submitted to the EDD.
The corporate disclosed final 12 months that the Santa Clara manufacturing unit’s days had been numbered and that it had struck a deal to promote the property, which occupies a selection Silicon Valley location, to Panattoni Improvement Co., an actual property agency.
“Owens Corning has entered into an settlement to promote the corporate’s Insulation web site in Santa Clara to business actual property developer Panattoni,” Owens Corning said in July 2021.
Panattoni Improvement has floated a preliminary proposal for a redevelopment of the 41.9 acres on the nook of Central Expressway and Lafayette Avenue the place a brand new challenge would change the manufacturing unit.
The true property agency has proposed three choices for the event of the location. The challenge would encompass some mixture of information middle, industrial, logistics, or warehouse buildings.
“The proposed challenge would demolish all the present constructions on-site and develop three new speculative
buildings,” Panattoni Improvement said in a submitting with Santa Clara planners.