Ostrom’s Mushroom President David Knudsen acknowledged Monday he may have left the wrong impression when he testified before a House committee in February. Ostrom’s is expanding, he said, but it is not moving its Lacey area location.
“The future of our business is at a new location, not that it is going away,” he clarified Monday. He described the Lacey operation as a “viable, going concern.”
That likely is welcome relief to the 275-300 employees who work at the 34-acre site off Steilacoom Road near Lacey. Ostrom’s has owned the property since the 1960s, Knudsen said, but expanding there is not an option now that neighborhoods have developed around it.
