Construction crews broke ground this fall on a sprawling new manufacturing plant in Hagerstown, Maryland, marking the first phase of what's planned as a 58-acre campus for Jamison Door Company and its parent, BMP Group. The 355,000-square-foot facility is designed to bring new production capacity to the century-old door manufacturer while also giving several of BMP Group's European brands their first U.S.-based manufacturing footprint.
ARCO Design/Build announced it celebrated the groundbreaking in a statement, saying it marks the start of a long-term build-out at the site. According to ARCO Design/Build, the project represents the first phase of a planned 58-acre North American manufacturing campus, and the facility itself will integrate automation, research and development, and product testing under one roof. The firm also said it is developing the site specifically for Jamison Door Company and its parent company.
The investment is meant to do double duty: strengthen Jamison Door's existing operations while also importing manufacturing for BMP Group brands that have historically been built overseas. Per ARCO, the facility will add U.S.-based manufacturing for certain European BMP Group brands, and the new production center is expected to provide the capacity, advanced technology, and modern infrastructure needed to support Jamison Door Company's growth.
New European Brands Headed Stateside
Those European product lines have names Hagerstown hasn't previously manufactured locally. Glass Magazine reports the facility is intended to bring new production lines from Europe, including Salco Industrial Doors, Champion Door, and Campisa dock levelers, into the Hagerstown operation. The same outlet reported the project received a $2 million grant through the Senator George C. Edwards Fund along with an additional $2 million grant from Washington County.
Jamison Door Company itself has deep roots in the region. The company says it was founded in 1906, according to its own announcement from Jamison Door Company, giving the new campus a throughline from a century-old local manufacturer to a modern, automation-equipped production hub.
Jobs Projected, Timeline Still Taking Shape
Glass Magazine's report says the facility is expected to support up to 250 employees, while a separate announcement distributed via PRWeb framed the same figure differently, stating the project will create up to 250 high-quality, long-term jobs by 2030. Neither report specifies when hiring would begin or whether all of those positions would be newly created.
ARCO says construction of the first phase is anticipated to be completed in the first quarter of 2028, with manufacturing operations expected to begin shortly after. Planning is already underway for a second phase of the campus, which ARCO says is intended to accommodate BMP Group's continued expansion in North America.
Not every outlet has landed on the same numbers for the project's scale or schedule. DC News Now described the site as a 335,000-square-foot facility in the Mt. Aetna Technology Park, a figure smaller than the 355,000-square-foot facility cited by ARCO and Glass Magazine. In a separate report, DC News Now also stated the new manufacturing facility in the technology park will be completed by 2030, diverging from the first-quarter 2028 completion date ARCO has given for the first phase.
Cost estimates for the project vary as well. The Daily Record put the price tag at $35 million to $55 million, describing it as the $35 million to $55 million production center, while Glass Magazine separately reported the $35 million to $50 million production center. Both figures came from reporting on the same groundbreaking, and neither outlet's number has been confirmed as definitive by the companies involved.
A Broader Manufacturing Push in Maryland
The Hagerstown project lands amid modest statewide movement in manufacturing employment. A Maryland Department of Commerce document notes that from 2018 to 2022, the state's manufacturing workforce employment has become more concentrated, though only by a small margin, without detailing the underlying measurement. Whatever role the Jamison Door and BMP Group campus plays in that broader trend, the scale of the Hagerstown build-out itself, spanning a planned 58-acre campus with a second phase already being planned, suggests the companies are betting on sustained growth in the region for years to come.
As originally reported by Connect CRE, the project is being closely watched as part of the Washington DC and Mid-Atlantic region's industrial development pipeline. With groundbreaking complete and construction underway, the next milestone for Hagerstown residents and local officials to watch will be whether the first phase stays on track for its targeted early 2028 completion.
