Riverside Mfg. Signals a Second Fort Wayne Expansion

Riverside Mfg. opened its new Fort Wayne headquarters at the former ITT Aerospace site on July 8, a $10 million-plus investment consolidating four Huntertown buildings into a single 170,000-square-foot facility, with 30 jobs added since 2025 and 50 more expected next year. But CEO Fred Merritt told Inside INdiana Business he expects the count could reach 150, tied to another opportunity that may fill the vacated Huntertown campus. That's an on-record signal that Riverside's empty 100,000-square-foot Huntertown site could reopen as a dedicated production location. Riverside sits in the sub-tier beneath BAE Systems' AMPV ramp, and Fort Wayne's ITAR-cleared electronics assembly labor pool is already tight, 150 net new positions would compound the pressure on the same candidates you're recruiting.