Manufacturer plans $5M expansion

FORT MYERS — Concrete-machinery manufacturer Somero Enterprises will spend $5 million to build a new corporate headquarters facility in Fort Myers.

Somero broke ground recently on a building at 14530 Global Parkway, near Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers. The 14,000-square-foot building will house the company's executive offices and training facility.

“We sell equipment in 93 countries so we have a lot of customers coming for in-house training on some of our equipment and to be able to do that year-round works better in Florida,” says Howard Hohmann, Somero's executive vice president, in a statement.