By Melody Simmons – Senior Reporter, Baltimore Business Journal
A mid-sized construction distribution firm has acquired a warehouse in Baltimore County with plans to double in size by 2030.
Baltimore Windustrial recently paid $19.75 million for the nearly 117,000-square-foot facility on Carroll Island Road near Bowleys Quarters Road. The deal will move the bulk of the 25-year-old firm from its current digs near White Marsh and expand its multi-state distribution system of supplies like pipe, fittings, valves and structural steel into additional markets.
“We have been busting at the seams for a couple of years now and have been on the hunt for new space,” Baltimore Windustrial’s owner and president, Michael Brown, said on Thursday. “We’re going to be able to fill it all.”
Windustrial plans to move into the new building this spring. The company has a workforce of 55 people and supplies construction materials to developers of data centers, casinos, health care and life sciences facilities and semiconductor facilities, including two data centers under development in Frederick County.
“We will become more efficient, effective and be able to stock more merchandise,” Brown said of the upcoming move. “We deliver daily to South Philly, West Virginia, across the Bay Bridge and points south to Charlottesville, Virginia, with 14 trucks on the road. Our goal is to grow that footprint and to double the company’s size by 2030. I think it’s very possible.”
Brown’s company has been headquartered for years in 44,000 square feet at 7501 Lake Drive in nearby in Rosedale. A portion of the company will remain at that facility and spin off into an independent business focused on fire distribution and fabrication, Brown said.
The firm first opened in 2001 in an 8,000-square-foot office and stockroom on Annapolis Road, and has expanded ever since. Brown discovered the warehouse in Eastern Baltimore County’s industrial corridor through a team from Baltimore commercial real estate firm Gold & Co. LLC, which also helped broker the deal.
Gold & Co.’s Will McCullough said the facility was built on spec last year by national industrial developer Scannell Properties, which was the seller. An entity of the firm, Scannell Properties #602 LLC, acquired the site in 2022 for $2.8 million, according to state records, and the nearly 10-acre parcel was redeveloped with the logistics facility flanked by a large flat-surface parking lot.