Riverhead Building Supply moving out of Mill Road site

Riverhead Building Supply’s Mill Road distribution center will be vacant by the end of next month.

The company is in the process of moving operations to a new distribution center at the Calverton Enterprise Park, where its corporate headquarters and millwork-manufacturing facilities are already located.

But the five-acre Mill Road site, which has three large buildings totaling more than 45,000 square feet and an active five-car rail spur, won’t be vacant for long, according to Jack O’Connor, a principal in the commercial real estate firm of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank.

“It’s already been sold,” O’Connor said. “An environmental company is buying it. They ship stuff nationally and are going to use the rail,” O’Connor said.

The deal is in the “due diligence” stage, the broker said. He declined to disclose the name of the buyer or purchase price.

Callahan said there has been interest in the site from a number of prospective purchasers.

He said the new facility will allow Riverhead Building Supply to consolidate and centralize its storage and distribution facilities into one 125,000-square-foot location, which is more than twice the size of its current facility on Mill Road. The company has also been using some of its Pulaski Street warehouse as a distribution center.

“It will streamline things for us,” he said, “and help us fulfill orders more efficiently and quickly. Having everything in one spot would help us greatly improve our level of service to the customer.” The new building would have rail access at EPCAL and would be adjacent to its existing 115,000-square-foot millwork facility there.

Riverhead Building Supply bought the Mill Road site, which is located just north of West Main Street, from Reserve Supply Corp. in 1993.

Riverhead Building Supply vice president Kevin Goodale oversaw the development of the new distribution center and is coordinating the move for the company, Callahan said.

The company was founded in Riverhead in 1948 by Goodale’s grandfather, Jesse and today employs more than 500 people, Goodale said. It operates a dozen supply warehouses and showrooms acros Long Island and in North Kingston and Middletown Rhode Island, according to the company website.