WYOMING, Mich. — West Michigan’s “rich tradition of furniture-making” has helped lure high-end lighting and furniture maker Roll & Hill to build a second manufacturing facility in Wyoming, Michigan, according to the governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer.

The Brooklyn, N.Y.-based company, along with state and local economic development officials, today announced a $1.5 million investment for a second facility in Wyoming that’s expected to create 50 jobs. The new location is near the company’s existing production facility in Wyoming.

“Roll & Hill was founded with the mission of producing great design for the American market,” Roll & Hill founder and CEO Jason Miller said in a statement. “There could not be a more fitting location for us than West Michigan with its rich tradition of furniture making and storied companies like Miller/Knoll, Steelcase and Haworth.” 

The Michigan Strategic Fund supported the project with a $300,000 Michigan Business Development Program performance-based grant.

Roll & Hill was founded in 2010 as a lighting designer and expanded into furniture in 2017. In early 2020, Roll & Hill acquired Alexis Manufacturing Co., the wood manufacturing division of Zeeland-based Howard Miller Clock Co., to expand into the wood furniture market, as MiBiz previously reported. The company employs 22 people at the former Alexis Manufacturing site in Wyoming.