ACLS Management looks to expand operations

Owners David Goldberg, Thomas D'Onofrio and the ACLS Management Group have announced plans to expand its operations. The management company was formed to construct, manage and operate large-scale commercial laundries and collectively has over 125 years of commercial laundry experience. The company operates two “state of the art” facilities located in Atlantic City, New Jersey and Norwich, Connecticut. Each plant utilizes high-tech, energy efficient laundry systems which provide first class laundry programs to its customers. The company conducts on a regular basis, tours of its facilities and has hosted laundry executives from as far as Asia. For more information on arranging a tour, please contact our marketing department at (609) 345-5888.

As a result of its reputation and success in the industry, the customer base of ACLS Management continues to expand into new markets. Tom D'Onofrio is actively seeking to aquire existing laundry and linen supply operations that would be synergistically advantageous to the market place. Currently, if your business is for sale or you represent a conglomerate of properties interested in having us construct or manage your facility, please contact Mr. D'Onofrio at our corporate offices.

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PRESS RELEASE April 9, 2008

Laundry to clean up eyesore, anchor Pleasantville district
AC Linen Supply first to join City Center Redevelopment Plan

AC Linen Supply first to join City Center Redevelopment Plan

PLEASANTVILLE - AC Linen Supply is used to cleaning up for Atlantic City's casinos. Now it's getting ready to clean up a portion of the city.

The company on Tuesday became the first to sign a redeveloper's agreement with Pleasantville as part of its City Center Redevelopment Plan, known as The District. The full project would include high-end restaurants and apparel stores, offices and residential apartments.

But the first step will be the renovation and expansion of the property at 7 N. Franklin Blvd., which had been empty for about seven years.

As AC Linen's current staff works on the inside, construction crews work on the outside to renovate the dilapidated building.

"This is what we're going to look like in about six weeks, hopefully," AC Linen President David Goldberg said, holding up an artist's rendering of the two-story brick building.

City officials were enthusiastic about the project.

"This was an eyesore in my city, now it's going to be something to be proud of," Councilman Lincoln Green said.

It also will bring jobs, many present pointed out. The laundry business now has 150 workers, with 90 percent of them Pleasantville residents, according to Goldberg's partner Tom Donofrio. The goal is to employ 254 people when the 60,000-square-foot site is completed.

The total project cost more than $8 million, according to Donofrio.

"This epitomizes exactly what we're trying to do in Pleasantville," City Council President Jesse Tweedle said. "To bring developers here, to create jobs so this area can flourish. I want everyone to know, this is the direction we're headed."

The proximity of the project to public transportation is also important, said Roger Tees, the city's director of economic and industrial development. Many of the employees don't have cars.

That it's an Urban Enterprise Zone - offering discounted taxes and special grants - also helped.

"It is the ideal location," Goldberg said. "The fact the city and UEZ worked so closely with us made it a no-brainer."

"I'm very impressed," said Councilwoman Judy Ward, who acted in the mayor's stead at the signing. "For years people have been saying, 'What are you going to do about that building off Old Turnpike. Now look at it."

In keeping with the UEZ requirements, there will also be a retail store in the front of the building, where hangars and other laundry equipment will be sold, Goldberg said.

The company also hopes to eventually move its small Absecon location into the Pleasantville plant, according to Goldberg. The second floor of the Pleasantville building is one-third larger than the other facility.

"We're hoping the city will help us with that," he said. "That would create another 25 to 50 jobs."

Those employees will all be union workers, which is why UNITE HERE President Michael A. Connell was on hand Tuesday.

"I am so happy to be part of this experience," he said. "It not only gives people work, it gives them jobs with benefits, health insurance, a prevailing wage. I'm really, really excited to be part of this."

Carlos Muniz is already happy. He smiled broadly as he separated laundry at the plant. An AC Linen Supply employee for four years, he's happy to be close to home.

"It's good work," he said, adding that he has learned a variety of skills.

Looking for a job in the winter, Nasario Hernandez was just happy to find one in January. That it's five minutes from his home in the city made it even better.

"It's convenient for me - I get to save some gas money," he said. "I think it's a good thing. We need more jobs here."

The plant should be fully operational by the second week in June, Goldberg said. Although he's hoping it will be sooner.

For city officials, it's just the beginning.

"This is more or less an anchor for (The District)," Green said. "It's starting everything for us."

 

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News from Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot tribal nations in Connecticut

PRESS RELEASE Nov. 1, 2002

CONTACT: Julie Hayles, SE Marketing, Inc.
(609)264-8004 ATLANTIC CITY LINEN SUPPLY EXPANDS OPERATIONS

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ - October 31, 2002 - ACLS NEW ENGLAND, INC., an affiliate of ATLANTIC CITY LINEN SUPPLY, INC. (ACLS), has announced plans to open a 35,000 square foot, state-of-the-art laundry plant in Norwich, Connecticut. The project has inspired an historic partnership between the Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot tribal nations, who run the Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods Resorts casinos respectively.
The new $8 million plant will be located in the Norwich Industrial Park, strategically positioned within a short drive from the Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods casinos. The facility will replicate the high-tech, energy efficient plant in Atlantic City, featuring a state-of-the-art modern laundry system that can perform at extremely high speeds.

"The 63,000 square foot Atlantic City plant opened in the spring of 2001, as one of the largest laundry plants on the eastern seaboard and one of the most automated processing plants in the world. In order to maximize the plant's capabilities, we began looking outside of the market for additional business," said ACLS president and CEO David A. Goldberg.

At that time, Goldberg and partner Tom D'Onofrio began discussions with the Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot tribes. Representatives from both tribes visited the Atlantic City plant and were so impressed with the facility, immediately began using ATLANTIC CITY LINEN SUPPLY for their resort properties. For the past twelve months, ACLS trailers have transported laundry to the Connecticut sites daily and the Atlantic City plant has been able to maximize staff levels to accommodate the growth.

"We are grateful to Chairman Kenneth Reels of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation and Chairman Mark Brown of the Mohegan Tribal Nation for their extraordinary vision and unprecedented cooperation in making this project a realty," said D'Onofrio. "Now that the new facility is being built, we will be working hard to once again maximize the capacity of the Atlantic City plant, so that we can continue to employee hundreds of local residents."

ATLANTIC CITY LINEN SUPPLY specializes in laundry services for casinos and five star hotel properties, and has been serving the local community since 1986. With its high tech machinery and unique design, the Atlantic City plant has proven to offer tremendous operating expense savings to its customers along with increased quality levels.

For additional information, call Victor Nappen, vice president of sales and marketing, at (609) 345-5888 or visit their website at www.aclinen.com.

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PRESS RELEASE Oct. 31, 2002

TWO TRIBAL NATIONS JOIN IN FIRST-EVER VENTURE
TO BRING INDUSTRY, JOBS TO CONNECTICUT

The Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot tribal nations today announced their first-ever joint enterprise, which will bring industry and jobs to Connecticut.
With the cooperation and assistance of the Norwich Community Development Corporation and the City of Norwich, the two tribes joined in a unique venture to provide laundry services to their hotels and restaurants while at the same time providing more jobs and expanding the tax base in Norwich.

The two tribal nations, customers of Atlantic City Linen Supply (ACLS) of Atlantic City, N.J., have reached an agreement with that company to bring laundry services closer to the two Tribes' major enterprises.

The chairmen of both tribal nations said the agreement with each other is an important example of tribal unity.

ACLS has agreed to build an $8 million building in the Norwich Industrial Park to service the tribes and any new, additional customers. The laundry company hopes to employ up to 60 people at the outset in the new building.

"I am thrilled that our two tribal nations have come together to help ourselves and our neighbors," said Chairman Kenneth M. Reels of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation. "I want to thank Chairman Brown and the Mohegan tribe for their cooperation and willingness to create opportunity for the state and the region."

"This is a historic moment and a great thing to see our two tribes come together in a common effort to help ourselves and a surrounding community," said Chairman Mark Brown of the Mohegan Tribal Nation. "This joint effort is a long-time coming, and I thank Chairman Reels and his tribe for all their hard work. We hope it is the beginning of more innovative partnerships together."

The recent addition of Mohegan Sun hotel rooms and restaurants has added to the unprecedented demand for laundry service that has existed in the area since Foxwoods Resort Casino opened.

The tribes by combining their demand were able to entice Atlantic City Linen Supply to construct a new, state-of-the-art plant on land ideal for this purpose in the Norwich Industrial Park. This facility will meet the present foreseeable needs of both tribes and will be able to provide the finest service available to others in the hospitality industry as well.

The project was made possible through the work of the Norwich Community Development Corporation in providing an ideal parcel of land with the necessary utilities, including natural gas through the Norwich Department of Public Utilities.
At the outset the facility will be able to service the more than 3,000 hotel rooms and 50 or more restaurants owned, operated or leased by the two tribal nations. The facility's capacity will be designed to handle additional clients as further business is developed by ACLS.