When family-owned Always Bagels, Inc. began running into some obstacles to the Company's long-term growth and profitability in its current location in Bohemia, NY, it called upon The Austin Company to assist them in determining the requirements of a new plant, finding the best available location for the new plant, performing preliminary design and engineering services, and developing cost and schedule details for the planned facility.

The project began with Austin Consulting, an extension of The Austin Company, performing a site location study to identify the most beneficial site. An initial analysis identified eastern Pennsylvania as the most desirable area due to transportation models, availability of suitable sites, availability of labor and other factors. In assessing the area analysis, Austin used fifteen different communities to perform a comparative cost analysis, eventually identifying Lebanon, PA as the preferred location.

This new production facility will provide Always Bagels with greater production capacity and efficiency closer to their raw materials supply, closer to their ever-growing universe of customers, and at substantially lower operating costs. The facility will be even more automated and will produce more than the present operation with only 78 employees. The new operation will increase Always Bagels' market share across the south, all the way to Texas.

The 22,000 SF Bohemia bakery, with 85 employees, turns out 336,000 bagels a day, seven days a week. They're done the old fashioned way; steamed, boiled and baked. They're then flash frozen before they make their way onto refrigerator trucks bound for supermarkets and food-service facilities across the country.

The Building will be built in three phases, with the initial phase consisting of office support, building systems support and an initial production line.  This initial Move-in Phase consists of approximately 72,600 SF.  Each of the two additional phases consist of approximately 57,170 SF each with the total building area, both move-in and two future additions, totaling approximately 186,940 SF.