KYLE – SmileDirectClub has announced it is canceling plans to open a large dental manufacturing facility in Kyle due to the pandemic.
The city received a courtesy call from a SmileDirectClub attorney in July regarding changes to their plans to expand to Texas.
The company originally announced plans in October 2019 to invest at least $36 million in a manufacturing facility in Kyle's Hays Logistics Center at Interstate 35 and County Road 210. The investment would have created approximately 850 jobs. In return, SmileDirectClub was set to receive a $2.2 million grant from the State-funded Texas Enterprise Fund and would have also been eligible to receive city and county incentives for a total of about $3.3 million. No tax dollars were lost as a result of SmileDirectClub’s decision to abandon plans for the Kyle facility due to the performance-based incentives the city employs.
“Losing SmileDirectClub is unfortunate, but the economic outlook of Kyle remains strong,” Mayor Travis Mitchell said. “We remain a city with a thriving office and industrial district, and companies are showing interest in our city from all over America.”
SmileDirectClub was expected to open its Kyle facility in February, but the buildout of the space was never completed, and workers never moved in. The 150,000-square-foot facility at the Hays Logistics Center that was being leased by the company is now back on the market.
