Fond du Lac-based Quality Packaging is expanding to a vacant St. Francis industrial building. And it's bringing 250 jobs.

A vacant St. Francis industrial building will be redeveloped with a new anchor business bringing up to 250 jobs to the community.

Fond du Lac-based Quality Packaging Inc. plans to expand its operations to Shur-Line LLC's former manufacturing facility at 4051 S. Iowa Ave.

Quality Packaging plans to lease around 225,000 square feet of the 290,000-square-foot building, said Mark Johnsrud, St. Francis city administrator.

The company will operate two shifts with up to 250 workers at the site, according to a plan commission report.

The commission voted Wednesday night to approve a reduction in the city's off-street parking requirements at its future facility, Johnsrud said.

That will allow Quality Packaging to begin moving equipment to the building in July, he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

The city's parking requirements, based on the building's size, mandate 322 spaces.

The building's owner, an affiliate of Milwaukee-based Phoenix Investors Group, wanted to reduce that mandate to 269 spaces.

Those are enough parking spaces for Quality Packaging, Johnsrud said.

Phoenix, in making its request, agreed to build another 53 parking spaces either before the rest of the building is occupied by other businesses or by Oct. 31 —whichever comes first.

"It is understood there is to be no street parking," the report said.

The sprawling building, which is near the Howard Avenue/Lake Parkway interchange, is next to a residential neighborhood.

Shur-Line, which makes painting supplies such as brushes and rollers, disclosed in June 2020 that it would close its St. Francis operations by the end of the year.

That eliminated 93 jobs, according to a notice filed with the state Department of Workforce Development. Shur-Line's last workers left the site in February, Johnsrud said.

Quality Packaging designs and produces product packaging and displays.

The company, founded in 1986, has done work for such companies as Axe, Lysol, Snap-on Tools, Air Wick, Kohler Co., Kodak and DuPont.

Company executives couldn't be reached Thursday for more information about what's driving their expansion plans.

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