[CPEO-BIF] Wellsburg (West Virginia) aims to breathe new life into old properties

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Wellsburg aims to breathe new life into old properties


By LINDA HARRIS
Steubenville Herald-Star (OH)
July 14, 2013

WELLSBURG - The boarded up windows at the old Brooke Glass property  
in the south end of town don't begin to tell the story of what's  
happening in the community, Mayor Sue Simonetti says.

Idled more than three decades ago, Simonetti sees the old factory as  
the centerpiece of a citywide effort to reinvent Wellsburg that  
started just about the time the old Banner-Fibreboard property in the  
heart of town was cleaned up and then acquired by Eagle Manufacturing  
for roughly $1.2 million. The company is currently building a 40,000- 
square-foot distribution center and a 1,200-square foot office where  
the paper plant once stood, leaving it with another 60,000 square  
feet of development potential in reserve.

"Brooke Glass wasn't our first priority (when we started)," Simonetti  
says of the 2-acre parcel just a block from city hall. "But it's  
become our first priority."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.hsconnect.com/page/content.detail/id/588330/Wellsburg-aims- 
to-breathe--new-life-into-old-properties.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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