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Council approves Menards$21 million bagging-plant expansion, grants 12-year tax abatement and Brownfield assistance

5764807 · August 26, 2025
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Council approved an industrial facilities tax exemption and amended a Brownfield plan to aid Menards' proposed $21 million bagging facility and soil remediation on a 30-acre industrial site; Saginaw Future told council the project retains 76 jobs and will create five more.

The Saginaw City Council voted to approve an industrial facilities tax exemption and to amend the citys Brownfield plan to support Menards proposed $21 million expansion, which will build a roughly 38,000-square-foot bagging facility that Menards said will package aggregates and Portland cement for its retail stores in Michigan.

At a public hearing Grace Smith, economic development coordinator with Saginaw Future, described the project as "a $21,000,000 investment to construct a 38,000 square foot bagging facility." Smith…

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