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Cider maker nixes Connor Homes building sale

MIDDLEBURY — The discovery of environmental contamination at the Connor Homes building on Route 7 South in Middlebury has halted the planned sale of the 115,000-square-foot manufacturing plant to booming hard cider maker Green Mountain Beverage (GMB).

It also put on hold Connor Homes’ plans to lease the 131,000-square-foot former Tubbs furniture plant in the Brandon Industrial Park.

Mike Connor, owner of Connor Homes, confirmed Monday that environmental testing had uncovered contamination under the company’s current location, the former Standard Register building.

In a deal announced in January, GMB, maker of Woodchuck Hard Cider, was to expand in the Connor Homes building. But the discovery of the industrial solvent trichloroethylene, or TCE, under the Connor Homes building in Middlebury torpedoed the deal.

“So, after all these months of planning with this move, we don’t have a sale, which is unfortunate,” Connor said. “We’re very disappointed because we were excited about moving to Brandon.”

Connor said his bank required more environmental testing before closing on the sale of the building. A Phase II environmental test, which required drilling through the floor of the building, uncovered the existence of TCE.

“We found that Standard Register had contaminated parts of the property under the floor,” Connor said. “Of course, all we’ve added is sawdust since we’ve been here.”

TCE was first produced in the 1920s and used for everything from anesthesia to coffee decaffeination to film cleaner. It was most popular up through the 1950s as a degreaser for metal parts.

Standard Register manufactures and prints business-related forms on a large scale, serving the industrial and health care industries.

Connor said the TCE will be cleaned up and that he is working with Phelps Engineering in Middlebury to that end, but the damage to his business plan is done.

“TCE is something that can be cleaned up and we will be doing so, but this is not something you want in a food or beverage business,” Connor said. “I think (GMB’s) interest is that they don’t want to be involved in the cleanup.”

Green Mountain Beverage CEO Brett Williams confirmed on Tuesday that his company is no longer in the running to buy the Connor Homes property.

“We are sorry this didn’t work out; we were on the one-yard line,” said Williams, who explained GMB doesn’t have the time needed to wait out the prospective cleanup process.

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