Gaylord boxes in Washington County

Washington County runs east to the St. Croix. Woodbury is its largest city and its newest industrial space; Cottage Grove has 3M's production site; Stillwater, Forest Lake and Oakdale have no trades.

Washington County's requests split between one big production site, newer warehouse tenants and small towns with no trade. For the first two, give the date the boxes are needed. For the third, give the count and the ZIP.

Washington County at a glance

Washington County's page gives 267,568 people at the 2020 census and a 2025 estimate of 286,895, over 423 square miles, with Woodbury the largest city and Stillwater the seat. The St. Croix forms the eastern border and the Mississippi the southwest. After the forests were depleted the economy became primarily agricultural, with some areas later developing around tourism.

Its 2021 employer list leads with Andersen Corporation in Bayport at 4,939, then School District 833 at 2,594, the Woodwinds HealthEast campus at 1,331, county government at 1,324, Walmart at 1,274 and Hy-Vee at 1,250. Roads named are Interstates 35, 94, 494 and 694, U.S. 8, 10, 12 and 61, and Minnesota 36, 95, 97, 120 and 244.

How the roads run

I-94 and I-494 cross the south, I-694 runs along the south-west, and MN 36 and US 61 serve the older river towns.

The Washington ledger

The sources' most frequent trades in Washington are plastics, polymers and adhesives (1). The largest towns are Woodbury, Cottage Grove and Oakdale.

Woodbury

Population 80,596 (Census estimate, July 2024). Location of a new‑construction industrial property with 300,000 sq ft+ vacancy. Mostly retail and health care; many residents work at 3M in Maplewood.

Woodbury's largest employers in the city's 2022 annual financial report: M Health Fairview (HealthEast) at 1,013, South Washington County Schools at 964, Target at 864 and 3M at 759, with a top ten totalling 5,628. 3M's headquarters sit a few miles west in Maplewood and that many residents work there. Those are employers named as context, not customers of anything on this site.

Cottage Grove

Population 42,760 (Census estimate, July 2024). 3M's Cottage Grove production site.

3M has run a production facility there since 1947, making adhesive products, industrial polymers and reflective road-sign materials, with research and development on site. The site is part of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's Superfund programme for perfluorochemical contamination, so the plant's history is both industrial and environmental.

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