Vestas Committed To Mass. Despite Change In Plans
The global wind turbine manufacturer that scuttled plans to build a 27,000-square-foot research and development complex in Marlborough is still committed to doing business in Massachusetts, a spokesman for the company said.
Vestas told state and city officials recently that it will not move forward with plans to build the research, development and engineering complex that would have employed at least 66. Vestas had bought the 8.5-acre parcel of land on Crowley Drive, where it intended to build the $16 million facility. Those plans are dead and the company is looking at "all options" on what to do with the land, company spokesman Andrew Longeteig said.
Vestas is based in Denmark and has U.S. operations in Texas, Colorado and Oregon. It also has offices in Hudson and Marlborough that will move into one facility in Marlborough, also on Crowley Drive, this spring. The site will house 40 employees, six more than it had split between the two sites last fall. The company has been in MetroWest since 1981.
"We're not leaving Massachusetts," Longeteig said. "We're still committed to the state."
Longeteig said part of the decision to halt building plans for the research and development site is tied to the company's recent announcement that it would lay off about 10 percent of its global workforce, close a factory in Europe and restructure the company. Last summer, the company said it had about 20,000 international employees, including about 3,000 in the U.S., most of them in Colorado and Oregon.
Vestas had been in line to receive about $1.6 million in property tax incentives from the city and state if it had gone through with construction.
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