- GE Appliances will invest $1B in GE Appliance Park, its 750-acre, 6M SF manufacturing campus and global headquarters in Louisville.
- More than $400M will convert Building 5 into a high-output dryer plant, moving production from Mexico to Kentucky by late 2027.
- The program also includes $112M for Building 1 and $490M for Building 2, with the campus expected to support 4,700 jobs.
GE Appliances is launching a $1B expansion and modernization program at its Louisville manufacturing headquarters. Commercial Search’s report on the GE Appliance Park investment says the 750-acre campus spans more than 6M SF across five facilities. The program will expand production in three buildings and is expected to make the site the largest US home-appliance assembly plant by fabrication output, employment, and footprint.
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Building 5 Gets the Largest New Upgrade
More than $400M will transform Building 5 into a high-output dryer manufacturing facility. GE Appliances plans to relocate dryer production from Mexico to Louisville as part of a broader reshoring effort. Operations are expected to begin in late 2027.
The Building 5 modernization is expected to take nine to 12 months. Refrigeration assembly there will end early next year during the conversion. GE Appliances will continue refrigerator production at plants in Decatur, Alabama, and Selmer, Tennessee.
The investment is being carried out with IUE-CWA, the union representing employees at the campus. GE Appliances says the combined program will expand production across three buildings while keeping the Louisville site at the center of its US manufacturing network.
Laundry Production Expands Across the Campus
GE Appliances is also investing about $112M in Building 1, which produces top-load washers and front-load dryers. The work will add equipment and redesign existing production lines.
Building 2 is receiving $490M under an investment first announced in 2025. The company plans to convert that property into an advanced laundry-fabrication facility using robotics and automated material-handling systems. Operations are scheduled to begin in 2027.
Together, the Building 1 and Building 2 projects broaden the campus’s laundry capacity beyond the new dryer line in Building 5. The upgrades combine new production equipment with automation and changes to material flow.
GE Appliance Park Enters a New Chapter
The manufacturing reshoring push will move dryer production from Mexico into GE Appliance Park in Louisville.
General Electric acquired more than 900 acres of farmland for the campus in 1950. Construction on Building 1 began in 1951, and the site started operating in 1953. The current campus covers 750 acres and includes production, corporate offices, engineering, distribution, and warehouse functions.
GE Appliance Park sits at 4000 Buechel Bank Road near interstates 65 and 264. Louisville International Airport and the UPS Worldport air-cargo hub are both about 7 miles away, giving the campus access to regional and national distribution networks.
The campus also produces washers, dryers, refrigerators, and dishwashers. Its mix of production and corporate functions makes the site both an industrial complex and GE Appliances’ global headquarters.
Jobs Grow With Production
Once the investment program is complete, GE Appliance Park is expected to support 4,700 jobs. Employees will have opportunities to move into new roles as production ramps up next year.
The Building 2 repositioning is expected to create 800 full-time jobs. The program is being carried out with IUE-CWA, the union representing campus employees.
GE Appliances expects workers to shift into new positions as production ramps. That makes the expansion both a real estate modernization project and a large operating transition across an established manufacturing workforce.
Louisville Draws More Industrial Investment
GE Appliances has committed $6.5B across the US since 2016. That includes more than $3.5B already invested in domestic operations and another $3B planned over the next five years.
Louisville is also seeing investment at other legacy and new manufacturing sites. Ford announced a nearly $2B overhaul of its 70-year-old Louisville Assembly Plant for next-generation electric vehicles. The first vehicle is expected to enter production next year.
Anthro Energy has also broken ground on a $40M battery-materials plant in the metro. The project is expected to create 110 full-time jobs and support 390 construction positions.
The surrounding projects reinforce Louisville’s role as an active manufacturing market. GE’s upgrades, Ford’s plant overhaul, and Anthro Energy’s new facility all involve significant capital spending on industrial production capacity.
