Baseball and softball footwear maker 3N2 will create new corporate headquarters at a vacant building at 309 Union St. in Schenectady, N.Y., Mayor Brian Stratton and the Schenectady Metroplex Development Authority announced.
The building, which contains both office and warehouse space, is in a state Empire Zone. Metroplex will provide a $125,000 low-interest loan to help finance improvements to the new headquarters and costs of moving company operations to Schenectady.
Metroplex Chairman Ray Gillen said 3N2 founder James Mann, a Union College graduate, is returning to Schenectady to run his company. 3N2 currently has distributors on both the East and West coasts, and in Asia, Australia and Puerto Rico.
3N2 expects to employ 20 people at the new location within three years.
Terms of the company's lease were not disclosed by Metroplex.
Mann is currently at spring training, trying to line up celebrity endorsers for its athletic footwear. It has signed Rickie Weeks, the No. 2 selection in the 2003 baseball draft by the Milwaukee Brewers, as an endorser.