From Beltsville to Baltimore, an automotive recycler is relocating to a new home.
Howard Rosenberg, owner of Beltsville Automotive Recyclers paid $1.67 million for a site at 4101 Curtis Ave. in Charm City to relocate his company from Beltsville. Beltsville Auto Recyclers is a wholesale supplier and manufacturer of used and rebuilt automobile and truck parts.
The new site sits on about 9 acres of land near Interstate 295 and the Baltimore beltway near the Harbor Tunnel.
“We needed a larger facility and [Prince George?s] County is not as easy place to find land to grow,” Rosenberg said. “It?s easier to do in Baltimore.”
NAI KLNB Brokers, based in Baltimore, handled the sale and purchase of the property.
“The purchaser was interested in strategically positioned building along with a heavy industrial-zoned property that would provide the company the ability to distribute and sell its auto and truck parts,” said Jim Caronna of NAI KLNB.
Beltsville Auto Recyclers has parts and cars as current as 2006 models that the company has bought from insurance companies.
Rosenberg said he needs to hire about 30 employees to work as dismantlers to disassemble vehicles. And no, the company will not change its name, and will remain Beltsville Auto Recyclers.
Rosenberg said it was tough finding such workers in the Beltsville area.
“We are hoping we can get the workforce we need,” he said.
Matthew Kachura, economic development research manager at the University of Baltimore, Jacob France Institute, said an established trade work force and the lower property cost are draws to businesses such as Baltimore Auto Recyclers.
“Baltimore City does have a good number of workers that might fit the type of skill level Baltimore Auto Recyclers needs,” Kachura said.
He added that former employees of a closed General Motors plant and a Bethlehem Steel plant in the Baltimore area offer a good labor pool.
