Fila USA, the fast-growing Italian athletic footwear manufacturer, plans to move its U.S. distribution center from suburban New York City to the Fort Holabird Industrial Park in Southeast Baltimore.
The distribution center, to be housed in a 100,000-square-foot warehouse, will receive footwear made in Italy, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and the People's Republic of China, and ship it to retail stores nationwide.
Fila plans to open the distribution center in April, according to Elaine A. Baker, the company's regional director of sales.
Yesterday, the firm took a step closer to that goal when the Baltimore Board of Estimates, a panel of the city's top officials, agreed to sell 8.5 acres of city land at the industrial park to the Abacus Corp. for $678,000.