[CPEO-BIF] Former Blumenthal Mill textile plant, Marion County, South Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Marion County lands record $54 million plant, up to 215 jobs

The State (SC)
By ANDREW SHAIN
March 27, 2013 

Essex Holdings will spend $54.4 million on a rice packaging and distribution plant that could employ up to 215 people, Gov. Nikki Haley and state commerce department officials announced Wednesday.

The plant is the largest initial-economic development announcement in Marion County history, said Rodney Berry, executive director of the Marion County economic development commission. Marion County had a state-high 19.2 percent jobless rate in January, more than double the state average of 8.7 percent, according to state data.

The facility will open later this year on Liberty Street in Marion at the site of the 500,000-square-foot former Blumenthal Mill textile plant, which closed in 2009. Essex has agreed with the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control to clean chemical pollution remaining from the mill, according to state documents.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thestate.com/2013/03/27/2696592/food-maker-to-build-54-million.html

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