Lego to buy 340-acre site for $1 billion plant

Lego The large new facility planned for Meadowville Technology Park's newest high-profile tenant would require

a lot of Legos to construct. Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Wednesday morning at the Science Museum of

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Virginia that the Lego Group, a multinational toymaker famed for its brick-building assembly kits, planned

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to invest $1 billion in a U.S. manufacturing factory in the Chesterfield industrial park. Approximately time, the 1.7

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million-square-foot building is estimated to provide over 1,760 employment. Lego intends to start building on the

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factory this year and complete it in 2025, the same year that production will begin. The Chesterfield factory

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which will produce Lego bricks and package kits, will be Lego's eighth worldwide and second in North America.

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One is in Mexico, and the other is in the United States. The business intends to invest in the Chesterfield

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factory over a ten-year period. The Lego factory in Meadowville will also have an on-site solar energy farm that

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will provide the factory with the energy it requires. According to a news release, the Chesterfield factory

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