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Land Development
The
money made from the slag operation is reinvested back into the site for
the economic development of reclaimed land.
This allows businesses to grow, which brings further jobs into the
county.
For
example, Beaver Valley Slag was instrumental in bringing US Gypsum into
Aliquippa. When Beaver Valley
Slag first purchased the property in 1996, the site around where the
present wallboard plant lies literally looked like a battle zone.
The landscape was littered with old concrete foundations, scrap
steel, and had a very steep grade.
Beaver Valley Slag
met the challenge and went into the battle with 10,000 pound hydraulic
hammers, gargantuan off the road haul trucks, and front end loaders.
With this they literally changed the landscape, and after several
million dollars worth of effort, produced a site ready for a large
manufacturing facility.
Beaver Valley Slag
then went to work with local politicians to add tax incentives for the new
owner of the site. Their
sister company, Bet-Tech International, actually aided in drafting the
Brownfield legislation which was so critical in making it economically
feasible to reuse the site. This also was the first site that Governor Tom Ridge visited
after his inauguration. This
highlights the very positive impact that Beaver Valley Slag has helped
make on the local economy.
While other sites of
this type are typically cleaned up using public Superfund dollars, this
site only used private funds from Beaver Valley Slag to pay for the
clean-up. This not only saves
tax dollars, but Beaver Valley Slag’s profits are then reinvested into
the community for further site development.
The new Beaver County Jail further testifies to the economic
benefit of reclaiming this once desolate waste site.
There
are still over 400 acres of the site being prepared for reuse.
Please contact Beaver Valley Slag today if you want to put your
business in this strategic zone, or if you have other land development
issues or needs.
