McCormick Spice Company to Keep Headquarters in Baltimore County

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Baltimore-based spice company McCormick & Co. Inc. has spent a year mulling options for a new headquarters – possibly elsewhere in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania or Delaware – but in the end plans to stay in Baltimore County.

The company is expected to announce it will establish a new 320,000-square-foot headquarters in Hunt Valley developed by Greenfield Partners, reports the Washington Business Journal.

A year ago, McCormick said it was looking for between 300,000 and 350,000 square feet of office space in the region by 2018, reported the Baltimore Business Journal. Commercial real estate firm CBRE Group Inc. shopped around the spice-maker’s requirements.

An official announcement planned by officials, including Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, was set for Tuesday but canceled. The Washington Business Journal says McCormick will build a $100 million six-story headquarters on a 20-acre site at the corner of Shawan and York roads.

Company officials said in March 2014 that they were studying a move of the corporate headquarters from Sparks in northern Baltimore County to consolidate offices at one site in Maryland or southern Pennsylvania, reported The Baltimore Sun. Sites in Maryland and Pennsylvania where many McCormick employees live were cited then as the target for the search to have a minimal effect on worker commute times.

The spice company employs about 2,400 people in Maryland, the Sun said. Administrative offices for about 800 employees are divided among four buildings in Sparks and Hunt Valley.

Company officials have said they want to be as close as possible to McCormick’s Baltimore County headquarters.

Possible locations for McCormick included Prince George’s County, which has Metro stations, the Landover Mall site and the Air Rights Center in Bethesda, the publication said.