Editorial - September 2003

RSI making an impact

Published September 8, 2003

The groundbreaking Friday for RSI Home Products’ new expansion is a breath of fresh air for Lincoln County.

RSI is making a $7.5 million investment in a new manufacturing plant at the Lincoln County Industrial Park. The new 200,000-square-foot facility will bring some 50 new jobs. Wood components manufactured there will be assembled in RSI’s other facility in the Industrial Park.

Lincoln County commissioners should receive some credit for this important move.  They offered RSI an incentive package of $155,542, which will be paid back over a five-year period. In return, RSI provides badly needed jobs and business to the county.

In 1998, RSI opened its downtown, 360,000-squre-foot manufacturing plant, which makes and distributes bathroom medicine, vanity and kitchen cabinets and cultured marble tops. Ground was broken at the site of the company’s 320,000-square-foot East Coast distribution center in the industrial park in 2000. The groundbreaking Thursday was for the third RSI facility in Lincoln County. The company now holds some 945,000 square feet of space.

When the latest expansion is completed next spring RSI is expected to have approximately 860 workers, which will make it one of the largest employers in the county.

With an unemployment rate soaring higher than 8 percent for the past two months, this is very positive news for Lincoln County.

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