Continental Tire has officially broken ground on a $76 million warehouse expansion at its Mount Vernon facility.
Company and community representatives gathered Thursday for the groundbreaking ceremony at the Jefferson County plant.
The project will include a highly automated finished-goods warehouse covering an area larger than six football fields. The facility will have storage capacity for approximately 500,000 passenger-car tires and is designed to improve Continental’s distribution network across North America.
Operations at the new warehouse are expected to begin in 2027.
Continental’s Mount Vernon operation is the company’s largest tire manufacturing plant in the United States, employing more than 3,500 people.
The plant began production in 1974 and was acquired by Continental in 1987. It currently produces tires for passenger vehicles, light trucks and commercial vehicles.