Jarrett Logistics Systems has officially joined the logistics big leagues this week, nudging its total warehouse footprint past the one million square foot mark with a sprawling new facility at Wooster Innovation Park. The expansion grows the family-owned company’s Ohio operations and brings new construction, added shifts, and fresh hiring to Wayne County. For neighbors around the park, it means a larger logistics hub in their backyard and the prospect of more full-time warehouse jobs rolling out over the coming months.
According to the Cleveland Business Journal, the Wooster building covers roughly 408,000 square feet, a single site that pushed Jarrett’s network beyond the 1,000,000 square foot milestone. The outlet reports that the Wooster facility is now Jarrett’s largest location in Wayne County.
The City of Wooster first pulled back the curtain on the project in April 2025, announcing plans for a roughly 402,500 square foot building on a 60.2 acre site inside the Wooster Innovation Park, with an initial goal of hiring about 30 employees. In a release from the City of Wooster, officials noted that the park’s industrial inventory would climb to roughly 1.2 million square feet once Jarrett and other projects were factored in. The statement also underscored the community-owned structure of the park and the incentive package that helped clinch the deal.
Built for visibility
Jarrett says the Wooster site is wired for transparency, with cloud-based warehouse management tools and real-time shipment tracking that let customers keep tabs on inventory across the company’s network. As outlined by Jarrett, its warehouse management and fulfillment systems, including e-commerce picking, reporting, and analytics, are standard across its locations in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Utah to cut down on errors and accelerate deliveries. The tech-forward setup is part of Jarrett’s push to market itself as a third-party logistics provider that delivers full visibility for its clients.
Local lift and long-term growth
Economic development officials say the opening is another sign that industrial demand in Wayne County is alive and well, and a lift for Wooster’s long-term effort to attract distribution and manufacturing users. The Wayne Economic Development Council has called out the project’s job potential and the county’s growing logistics muscle, while city materials stress that there is still open ground at the Innovation Park for future deals. For Wooster, Jarrett’s new campus broadens the tax base and gives officials a showpiece example of the park’s ability to land sizable tenants.
Jarrett now runs a mix of owned and leased warehouses around the region, including facilities in Orrville and New Holland, Pennsylvania, and the company says the Wooster operation will sharpen its service reach and speed for area customers. More details are available from the Cleveland Business Journal and Jarrett. Local officials say the next metrics to watch are how quickly the company fills out its hiring plans and how fast the new building ramps to full operations.
