Great Outdoor Cottages is constructing a 50,000-square-foot manufacturing facility at Delaware Coastal Business Park in Georgetown and expects to add 75 new jobs over the next few years.
The business, led by Mike Scheid and John Longino, designs and builds cottages for the campground and resort industries. “Innovative building techniques” are used to create compact buildings “with cool space-saving amenities and exciting features,” according to a news release.
The brightly-colored, 395-square-foot buildings sleep six people and include a full kitchen, a walk-in shower, a full bathroom and a back porch.
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Great Outdoor Cottages’ new facility will be located at 1498 Baltimore Ave., within the Sussex County-owned Delaware Coastal Business Park, next to the airport in Georgetown.
The company has been manufacturing its product at a temporary facility in Millsboro, but “due to overwhelming demand and production space limitations,” had to cut off production at 171 units this year.
Many of those units were made for Blue Water, an Ocean-City based development and hospitality group that owns 25 campgrounds on the East Coast. Blue Water CEO Todd Burbage is a lead investor in Great Outdoor Cottages.
Construction on the Georgetown facility is underway and is expected to be completed this fall.
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