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Consolidation in the industry has helped Brooklyn-based Arrow Linen Supply to grow. And its recent expansion will soon bring jobs to Long Island.
A good location and a better price helped John Magliocco Jr. decide on an industrial building on South Street in Garden City as the place to expand his family's growing linen supply company.
Arrow spent $5.22 million for the 72,000-square-foot former home of WAC Lighting. Magliocco, Arrow's president, said the company had been looking for a site for about five years, concentrating on central Queens, before finding the Garden City property.
The South Street building will enable Arrow to expand its business in Queens and Long Island, where it already claims about 50 percent of the linen supply market share.
Having the additional building also frees up space in its original Brooklyn facility, so the company can expand further into New York City and New Jersey.
The Garden City expansion also lets Arrow continue to acquire other linen supply companies, since they will be able to handle the increased...