Partnership Key to Northern Panhandle Growth
The Business Development Corporation of the Northern Panhandle( BDC) knows reaching the $ 1 billion investment mark doesn’ t happen without collaboration. Strong partnerships have been the driving force behind transforming once-abandoned industrial sites and deteriorating buildings into vibrant centers of economic activity.
For the residents of Hancock and Brooke counties, nestled between the hills of the Appalachian Mountains and the Ohio River, West Virginia’ s northernmost counties are welcoming new industries, commercial expansion and longoverdue residential growth where steel makers once stood.
Thanks to strategic brownfield remediation and redevelopment, the BDC has turned idle land into opportunity while working alongside local, state and federal agencies as well as private sector partners. Progress hasn’ t happened overnight, though.
“ Economic development can be a long game,” says Anthony Clements, executive director of the BDC.“ What we’ re seeing now are the fruits of our labor, years in the making.”
Last year, Weirton welcomed a game-changing investment— Form Energy’ s massive, state-of-the-art iron-air battery production facility, built on the very grounds where Weirton Steel once stood. Work is currently underway for even more expansion at the site, with additional room to grow for future businesses.
Meanwhile, in Beech Bottom, redevelopment efforts and capital improvements continue, breathing new life into former industrial spaces.
Just off Three Springs Drive in Brooke County, the multimilliondollar Park Place development is making rapid progress. The addition will bring much-needed residential, commercial and green spaces to the area.
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