Once looking elsewhere,
Ocean Design now in its new Daytona Beach manufacturing plant
After
several years of planning, Ocean Design Inc. has moved its
headquarters and manufacturing operations to a new home in Daytona
Beach. The newly constructed state-of-the-art manufacturing facility
was built by T.G. Glass & Associates, Ormond Beach, and contains
100,000 square feet of office and production space.
Ocean
Design’s new facility is on Williamson Boulevard just south of Mason
Avenue where it will be home to more than 200 area workers. Since
2002, the company has been seeking a new location to consolidate its
operations. Sites in Texas and throughout central Florida were
considered.
In 2004,
the Daytona Beach site on Williamson Boulevard was chosen following
a series of competitive site reviews. Lead by developer Joseph
Fisher of Resource Property Rights Inc., Summerland Key, the new
Ocean Design facility was built on land formerly owned by the
Consolidated Tomoka Land Development Company that now is part of the
Gateway Business Park South.
The Volusia
County Department of Economic Development coordinated more than
$614,000 in funding for road improvement upgrades on Williamson
Boulevard and the construction of Cairns Way to support the
company’s required needs.
“Retaining
Ocean Design here in Volusia County with its highly-skilled
workforce was important to the County Council and the hundreds of
families that would have been impacted if the company was to have
left our area,” said Volusia County Economic Development Director
Rick Michael . “The public support in the company’s future was a
good investment.”
Additional
business incentives in the form of future real estate tax abatements
were approved by the City Commission of Daytona Beach in exchange
for the project’s overall capital investment of more than $12
million in construction and capital equipment.
Ocean
Design is a world leader in the design and manufacturing of high
pressure couplers and connectors used in deep sea environments by
the oil and communications industries. The company was founded by
James Cairns of Ormond Beach who around 1990 began the company in
Holly Hill as a small business with fewer than five employees. Today
the company employs more than 200 workers in its Daytona Beach
facility and in offices in Houston and Scotland.
Prior to
the company’s move to Daytona Beach, the firm was in multiple industrial
facilities in the Ormond Beach Airport Industrial Park.
