York County is close to landing the North American location of a company that designs machinery for packaging products, county leaders were told Monday night.
Bradman Lake Group wants to move a manufacturing facility from Charlotte to the SouthCross Corporate Center off North Cherry Road near Rock Hill. The move would bring 50 engineering jobs, said Edward Kluiters, a Columbia attorney representing Bradman Lake in the deal.
County business recruiters have offered incentives to push the deal forward. A fee-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement could provide as much as a 43 percent reduction in property taxes levied against new equipment.
A vote by County Council members was delayed Monday night because late word changes in a contract had not been reviewed by the county attorney.
Bradman Lake designs shrink wrapping, cartons and other packaging materials, according to its Web site. The privately held company has manufacturing facilities in Charlotte and in England and offices in Shanghai and Moscow.
The arrival would come as welcome news in a county with a 14 percent unemployment rate, though it's unclear how many current employees would keep their jobs and commute from Charlotte.
Bradman Lake would move into a 40-acre business park developed by Charlotte-based Beacon Partners.
Next to the Home Depot, the park sits in an area known as the “crossroads” of Interstate 77, S.C. 161 and U.S. 21.
Bradman Lake said it specializes in the design, development and manufacture of packaging machinery to global customers.
It's a subsidiary of a British global engineering group called Langley Holdings.
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