DMC Carter Chambers to build new headquarters in B.R.

Gov. Bobby Jindal joined officials from DMC Carter Chambers today to announce the company’s plans to spend $10 million to build a new 90,000-square-foot headquarters facility on a lot next to the company’s current headquarters at 19151 Highland Road. The project will include consolidating the existing headquarters with its Gonzales and Prairieville operations, and is expected to create 80 new jobs over the next nine years, as well as retain 128 existing jobs. Louisiana Economic Development—which is providing DMC with a performance-based $600,000 Economic Development Loan Program award and a $400,000 Modernization Tax Credit, along with customized job screening, hiring, and training services through its FastStart program—estimates the project will also create 155 new indirect jobs. DMC is also expected to utilize the state’s Quality Jobs and Industrial Tax Exemption programs, LED says. “The company looked at relocating the Baton Rouge headquarters to Houston, where its parent company is based,” Jindal says in news release. “Ultimately, the company decided to not only stay in Baton Rouge, but to expand their operations because of their strong and dedicated workforce and the tremendous support of our local and state economic development allies.” Construction of the new facility will begin this year and be completed by next fall. In addition to corporate offices, the new headquarters will be home to 17 employees moving from the company’s Gonzales distribution center and 12 employees moving from its Prairieville filtration center. Altogether, DMC Carter Chambers—a subsidiary of Pon Holdings BV of The Netherlands—oversees 486 employees in multiple states.