Crompton Corp., which plans to relocate its corporate headquarters from Greenwich to Middlebury, Ct., has hired Cushman & Wakefield to market a total of 290,000 sf of office space the company leases at the former American Can headquarters complex at One American Lane in Greenwich.

Mary Ann Dunnell, vice president of corporate communications for Crompton Corp., says that while the company has engaged in a restructuring program, the move of its corporate headquarters operations to Middlebury was not part of that effort. She adds that the company, which has maintained two principal offices in Connecticut since its September 1999 merger with Witco, wants all headquarters personnel in one location. Dunnell notes the move to Middlebury is scheduled for the end of 2002 and that most of the 250 workers at the company's Greenwich offices will be offered positions at the Middlebury facility in the Preston Hill Office Park where the company leases approximately 320,000 sf of space.

Crompton, formerly Crompton and Knowles Corp., once maintained offices in Stamford. Witco, the subject of a major bidding war between New York State and Connecticut in the early 1990s, eventually secured several million dollars in incentives from the Nutmeg State to relocate operations from New York City to Greenwich. Crompton is a $3 billion producer of specialty chemicals and polymer products.