| From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
| Date: | Tue, 10 Jul 2018 22:52:26 -0700 (PDT) |
| Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
| Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Former U.S. Gauge plant, Sellersville, Pennsylvania |
Upper Bucks' Solar Manufacturing breaks ground on new headquarters at reclaimed brownfield industrial site by Anthony Salamone Allentown Morning Call (NY) June 19, 2018 The economy in this Bucks County borough once revolved around U.S. Gauge, a manufacturer of aircraft-measuring instruments established in the early 20th century. The company, which employed as many as 1,700 people at its Sellersville plant in the mid-1980s, saw employment dip a decade later to just 600 workers. By the early 2000s, the manufacturing campus, then owned by Ametek, had closed, its sprawling buildings leveled. On Thursday, county officials and others celebrated a new beginning for the brownfield site with the groundbreaking of a $8 million plant and headquarters for Solar Manufacturing Inc., a maker of vacuum heat-treating furnaces. … For the entire article, see http://www.mcall.com/business/mc-biz-bucks-county-solar-manufacturing-groundbreaking-20180619-story.html -- Lenny Siegel Executive Director Center for Public Environmental Oversight a project of the Pacific Studies Center P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042 Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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