LOUISVILLE, Ky. — More jobs are coming to Louisville’s West End after a British manufacturing company announced it’s investing money to build modular homes.
With an investment of $6.1 million coming to the Parkland neighborhood, city leaders are excited to see this facility transform the community.
“Let’s say game changer because that’s what this is a game changer,” said Councilwoman Tammy Hawkins, D-District 1. Her district will see 73 jobs.
“West Louisville has been an underserved area for far too long, with minimal access to resource options as well as underpaid and limited job opportunities,” Hawkins said.
The city announced the England-based manufacturing company MMY U.S. will build modular homes. These are buildable apartment-style homes.
“This new facility will offer the opportunity to learn a trade and a new skill set to provide better job opportunities and increase competitive wages,” Hawkins said.
The competitive wages range from $23 to $30 per hour with on-site child care in the evening. The company says they’re coming to hire at least 51% of its workforce from the nine neighborhoods in west Louisville.
“We’re going to be building affordable modular housing. That’s not just for Louisville, but it’s going to be shipped off all across the country. Great jobs, day care for folks that are working here, good wages, just the evidence of the great things that are going on here in West Louisville,” said Mayor Craig Greenberg, D-Louisville.
The investment also includes a grant from the Louisville Metro Government of $500,000.
“I think about this being at least the second major jobs announcement in about a four-month period now showing, given that both are direct foreign investment, that west Louisville is becoming a destination for capital and investment from all over the world,” said Gov. Andy Beshear, D-Ky.
The company plans to build up to 500 housing units per year in the five-acre facility. They’ve partnered with the city in a 10-year lease.