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needs the space for the blower motors, compressors, evaporators, fans, tubing and other parts it distributee to 87countries worldwide, said Thom chief information officer, whose Grace Davis, is the company president and The couple lives in Irving and say they are eagef to set up shop in theirf hometown. Omega Environmental will move out of10802 N. Stemmonsw in Dallas, where the company now leasew 60,000 square feet. It will take occupancty in December in anew 400,000-square-foot buildinf to be developed by Arlington-baseed Proterra Properties.
The facility will be developeed in the Valley View Business north of the intersection of County Line Road and Valley View Dan Lawson, marketing director for Proterra, declined to release details about the building at this Bill de la Chapelle and Sharonj Morrison of The Staubach Co. representedc Omega Environmental in negotiating the lease. Rental rates were not The City of Irving has worked with Omega since the summer of saidJohn Bonnot, vice president of Economic Development for the Greatef Irving/Las Colinas Chamber of Commerce.
"They had outgrown thei r space and neededto expand," Bonnot "Grace and Thom are Irving they are involved civically in our and we definitely wanted to do what we coulx to bring them "They have a good core employer base, they are financially strong and we're very delighted that we were able to convinced them to locate here," Bonnot added. The Irving City Council approved a Freeport tax exemption for Omega that means thecompany won't be taxed on inventory that is forwarded out of Texas within 175 Bonnot said.
The exemption was important to Omegs because morethan 75% of their inventory is shipped outsidde the state, Bonnot Omega Environmental Technologies' revenue has been growingv at about 12% annually for the past five years, topping $50 milliom in 2007, Thom Davis said. The compan has 62 employees and mayadd more, althougj it's trying to keep its headcount down to keep costd low, he said. "We move about 2 million widgetes a month through thefacility we're in," Davis said. "We have to move because we've run out of spacee for product.
And since we do so much international business, being near the airport is a big plus for Davis attributedthe company's growth to strongt customer service and the weak which makes the company's products less expensive overseas. "We still have nine of our firsft 10 customersfrom 1989," he said. "We like to think we take good care ofour customers." Proterrwa Properties is a privately held real estates development, investment and management company that concentrates on the industrial According to the company's Web Proterra owns controlling interest of more than 5 millio square feet of industrial property in Dallas-Fort Wortu and Houston.