Clearing of Wehrle site reaching halfway point
Newark Advocate
Mid-Ohio Development's efforts to clear what will be one of the largest development sites within Newark city limits already are about 40 percent complete.
The company began clearing the old Wehrle Stove Co. and Roper Manufacturing site earlier this year of the dilapidated buildings that have plagued that portion of Newark.
When the project is complete, 25 acres of land will be opened for new industry within the city.
It is a move that local leaders have praised, particularly because the benefits of the site might make it attractive to business.
"It has a huge amount of advantages," Licking County Economic Development Director Rob Klinger said. "It has skilled labor right around it. It's got phenomenal highway access and then it is has got rail service. ... Not a lot of sites have rail service."
In addition, the site has easy access to broadband, water and sewer.
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Mid-Ohio Development's efforts to clear what will be one of the largest development sites within Newark city limits already are about 40 percent complete.
The company began clearing the old Wehrle Stove Co. and Roper Manufacturing site earlier this year of the dilapidated buildings that have plagued that portion of Newark.
When the project is complete, 25 acres of land will be opened for new industry within the city.
It is a move that local leaders have praised, particularly because the benefits of the site might make it attractive to business.
"It has a huge amount of advantages," Licking County Economic Development Director Rob Klinger said. "It has skilled labor right around it. It's got phenomenal highway access and then it is has got rail service. ... Not a lot of sites have rail service."
In addition, the site has easy access to broadband, water and sewer.
Read more
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