Commerce City beat competing out-of-state locales to land a $13.3 million diesel-engine-remanufacturing plant that promises at least 71 permanent jobs.
The “master rebuild center” planned by Cummins Rocky Mountain LLC will refurbish high-horsepower engines used mostly for mining, said Eric Sparks, chief financial officer for the company.
Cummins’ consolidation plan will shift some of the company’s remanufacturing operations from Billings, Mont., and Salt Lake City, locations that also vied with Commerce City for the new plant.
“These are new jobs for us,” Sparks said. “We’re not relocating a lot of the workforce from those states, so there’s a significant amount of training involved.”
During its first five years of operation, the 78,000- square-foot facility is projected to hire 71 employees and add 40 to 70 more over the following five years.
Government economic-development officials lured the Broomfield-based company to Commerce City with Colorado FIRST training credits, county incentives and about $457,000 in city tax rebates, Sparks said.
Commerce City economic- development director Brittany Morris said Cummins is the ideal company to bring the “advanced manufacturing” jobs the city seeks. The City Council unanimously approved the incentive package Monday.
“We’re very excited to have Cummins join our business community here,” Morris said.
Cummins must finish the project by October 2011 to earn the tax rebates.
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