Ex-Purolator, Tri-State plant sells to New Jersey LLC for $2.3M

PATTERSONVILLE – The former Tri-State Envelope and Purolator plant in the valley has a new owner.

The plant at 247 Pattersonville Road in Union Township sold for $2.3 Million to 247 Pattersonville Road, LLC.

NAI Keystone, brokers for the sale, described the property as 118,000 square feet of manufacturing and industrial space across two buildings.

“The site is well-equipped with key infrastructure features that enhance its long-term usability and appeal, and this acquisition highlights ongoing demand for well-located industrial assets with existing infrastructure and functional building layouts, particularly in secondary markets that support manufacturing and distribution operations,” NAI Keystone said in a release.

Little is clear about the new owner of the property. The LLC has a Lakewood, New Jersey triplex listed as its address on the Schuylkill County Parcel Locator.

Organization documents filed with the Pennsylvania Department of State only list the owner of the Commercial Registered Office Provider, File Right Services.

The deed filed with the Schuylkill County Recorder of Deeds Office in November was signed by Joseph Spira, listed as managing member of 247 Pattersonville Road, LLC as well as owner of the Lakewood triplex. Information on Spira is sparse.

The plant most-recently served as a warehouse for Ashland-based Tri-State Envelope. That company sold to an out-of-state firm in 2021, which closed the hometown plant and the Pattersonville warehouse just over a year ago, displacing 122 workers.

It was built by the Shenandoah Chamber of Progress in the 1950s as an attempt to lure industry to northern Schuylkill County as anthracite production and employment continued to falter. The plant was along the Reading Railroad’s Catawissa Branch, which was abandoned in the 1970’s.

It was one of the first industrial successes in our area post-coal as Purolator announced plans to move in in 1951, according to the Mahanoy City Record-American at the time.

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