Integra gets waiver to build office addition

By ELISA SAND, Staff Reporter

Officials with Integra Plastics in Madison have gained approval from city officials this week to add office space to the current facility.

Company officials were asking for a 17-foot front-yard variance in order to build an office addition. Current city regulations require that facilities in a light manufacturing zone be located 50 feet back from the property line. The variance allows for the boundaries of the addition to be 17 feet closer.

Clark Lee, director of new business development at Integra Plastics, said that planning commissioners approved the variance, which allows for a 2,400-square-foot addition. That addition, he said, will allow for the construction of office space for sales personnel who are currently located at the Washington Plaza.

Although the variance was approved, Lee said, plans are not set in stone to immediately begin construction.

"We felt we wanted to jump through the first hurdle," he said.

Now the planning will begin for the new office space.

"It allows us to take it to the next phase of the business plan," he said.

This isn't the first construction project for Integra. The company added production, warehouse and office space in 2001, '05, '06 and '07.

Founded in 1991, Integra Plastics has grown from a 20,000-square-foot facility to a 98,000-square-foot company in the Lakeview Industrial Park.

The company is operating at capacity. Lee said that in addition to the office space, another project Integra is considering is more production space. Lee said the office space and another addition could both take place in 2011.

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