"I don’t have a clear road map yet to that. I’m kind of taking it slow," he said. "We're going to probably do something there."

DeLonghi bought the 106,000-square-foot facility at One Buffalo River Place, just off South Park Avenue, for $800,000. The two-story brick building, with six loading docks and 18-foot ceilings, was constructed in 1938 on 4.4 acres of land near the intersection of Smith Street and South Park Avenue.