Orgill expects to have its distribution center up and running at Griffiss Business and Technology Park in Rome this summer.
Orgill serves more than 6,000 retail hardware stores, home centers, professional lumber dealers and farm stores in more than 50 countries, according to statistics provided by the company.
The company announced it was coming to the city in May 2019, with plans to build a 780,000-square-foot facility.
Orgill expects to employ about 200 people at the facility and held a drive-thru job fair last month to jumpstart the hiring process.
The company originally expected to be fully operational by early 2022, but has recently said it now plans to open in June. Work on the facility was deemed essential, and construction has continued unabated throughout the pandemic.
Natasha Gilmore, Idlewild Books and Open Borders Books, NYC
: This book contains two novellas and some short stories set around Colombia (and occasionally Miami). The narration is often low-affect, sharply cynical, and wryly observed. There’s a cutting honesty in the voice throughout the book that feels totally absent from so much literature now. It reminded me of the feeling of encountering something truly when I was a teenager. But then there’s just the crushing reality of coming into sexuality as a teen, colorism and racism in Colombia, the restlessness wrought by capitalism and the desire to flee yourself and the accidents of your birth that ultimately coalesce into something so universally resonant, that will make any reader feel seen and connected. Truly an author worthy of attention.