Mack Concrete is looking to expand in Astatula.
The town’s planning and zoning board on Thursday was briefed on a site plan that includes a new production facility on the company’s nearly 58-acre property on County Road 561.
Plans, done by infrastructure planning firm Halff, show a new 156,000-square-foot, 55-foot tall building on about an acre on the northeast corner of the property. Plans also call for 25 parking spaces.
Currently, Mack’s production is outdoors under large pavilions. The company is looking to move operations indoors so they don’t have to worry about rain and their employees don’t have to work in the sun.
The Astatula plant isn’t Mack’s only operation. According to its website, Mack has been around since 1932 and supplies ready-mix concrete and manufactures precast manholes, transformer vaults, pole bases, box culverts, arch bridges, median barriers and burial vaults. Mack has plants in Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Ohio and Florida and serves those states and more.
The site plan is expected to come back to the board at its May meeting and then to the town council after that. Mack will be asking for at least two variances, one for required parking spaces and another for loading zones, Halff’s director of land development, Chuck Hiott, told the board. The entire operation employs about 50 people, but town code would require 359 spaces for the new building. Mack will be asking for a total of 145 spaces. Based on the size of the project, town code would also require 28 spots for loading space and Mack only has one.
But because Mack had not yet submitted a variance request, the advertising requirement had not been met, so the planning board couldn’t vote on the plan with its variances at its Thursday meeting.
In other Lake County News:
- Crooked Can Brewing has broken ground on a massive brewery and food hall in Minneola. The brewery is the first retail tenant within Hills City Center in Hills of Minneola.
- Also in Minneola: Onx Homes is planning to bring a unique townhouse development to to the city.
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