Saturday, March 28, 2015
Staff report
LORDSTOWN
Lordstown Mayor Arno Hill already has seen some progress on the anticipated development of a new industrial park in the village.
At a Friday Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber event at the Anderson- Dubose facility here, Hill provided an update on projects in the village, including the state of former GM property that was sold last year to NorthPoint Development of Missouri.
“They cleared out over 100 acres already,” Hill said.
Last year, NorthPoint purchased the 173.5 acres of vacant industrial land adjacent to the GM complex from RACER — Revitalizing Auto Communities Environmental Response Trust — with the goal of creating an industrial park for suppliers to the GM Lordstown plant where the Chevrolet Cruze is built.
The project comes with a potential of employing 1,500 to 2,000 people. A representative from NorthPoint could not be reached to comment.
Hill also mentioned plans for an electricity-generating plant.
“If this does come to fruition, we will have an $800 million electric plant powered by natural gas,” Hill said.
After the update from Hill, Newton Falls Mayor Lyle Waddell and Lords-town and Newton Falls school superintendents and other attendees were given a tour of the $30 million, 155,000-square-foot Anderson-Dubose distribution center in Ohio Commerce Park, where about 200 are employed.
The facility provides paper and food supplies to more than 500 McDonald’s and Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurants in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and West Virginia.