The Lego Group held a ceremonial groundbreaking Thursday for its $366 million warehouse and distribution center in Prince George County.
The 2 million-square-foot building will be the largest regional distribution center in Lego‘s global network. The site is located at 8800 Wells Station Road in the county, about 20 miles from the $1 billion manufacturing facility the Danish toymaker is building in Chesterfield County, which was about 35% complete in early October.
“Virginia is Lego, and increasingly, Lego is Virginia, and that is such an exciting thing to say. The partnership between the Lego Group and the Commonwealth of Virginia is nothing sort of awesome,” Gov. Glenn Youngkin said Thursday at the groundbreaking.
The company and Youngkin announced the facility in May. Lego started construction in the middle of this year, said Cindy Sikora, Lego’s vice president of supply chain operations for the Americas. The toymaker expects to open the distribution center in early 2027 and to open its factory in Chesterfield, expected to create about 1,760 jobs over 10 years, in January 2027.
