While Whitley intends to manufacture Capsys at its Leola, Pennsylvania facility, it wants to market the units across the country. As MHProNews posted Dec. 14, 2015, Capsys closed its plant at Brooklyn’s Atlantic Navy Yards after nearly 20 years, and was entertaining an offer from Pennsylvania, presumably Whitley.
In New York City Capsys built the modules for the 55-unit micro-modular apartment, as well as for the Forest City Ratner modular housing complex at the Barclay Center in Brooklyn.
“Capsys is synonymous with modular construction in New York City, and its system will let us build taller. In a place where most of the space is vertical, that’s a really important feature,” Whitley president Simon Dragan said.
Capsys founder and president Nick Lembo began Capsys specifically to build smarter and faster in New York City. “I’m proud of what the Capsys team has accomplished over the years and how we have expanded the options for construction in New York,” he said.
Whitley began in the late 1940s building homes for returning veterans, and has manufactured roughly 40,000 units for public and private use, including many modular projects in NYC. However, they have been limited to smaller affairs of no more than three stories, but the acquisition of Capsys will enable it to expand its repertoire more vertically.
“We are grateful to Capsys for all the work they have done over the years to introduce and popularize modular,” Dragan said. ##
(Photo credit: Forest City Ratner–module for 34 story modular housing complex)
