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Consumers Selects Region for Power Plant |
CSX/Ferro-Met Clean-Up Project Begins |
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Rendering of
proposed Consumers
Energy power
plant in
Bay County. |
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Kessler
Environmental
Excavating has
begun cleaning up
the former CSX/
Ferro-Met site
located in the
City of Saginaw. |
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Consumers Energy has selected
its Karn/Weadock Generating Complex in
Bay County
as the site for construction of an 800-megawatt clean coal power plant,
the start of a new generation of power for
Michigan,
top utility executives announced recently.
The utility’s plans call for 500 megawatts
of the plant’s output to be used to help serve its 1.8 million electric
customers with 300 megawatts going to other owners. A number of
municipal utilities in
Michigan
have expressed interest in becoming part owners of the new plant,
however, no formal agreements have been reached with potential
participants.
The new plant is expected to cost in
excess of $2 billion and Consumers Energy’s share of that cost will be
in proportion to its ownership interest. The plant is expected to be in
operation in 2015.
The new power plant
announced today will bring significant economic development benefits to
the region. Building the plant is expected to create nearly 1,800 jobs
at the peak of construction, then at least 80 ongoing jobs after the
plant begins operation. It also will provide a significant boost to the
local tax base and area businesses.
The new plant
will use proven state-of-the-art technology in all aspects of its
operations, including the latest and best available technology to
minimize environmental impacts. |
Clean-up of the CSX/Ferro-Met brownfield site has begun!
Saginaw Future facilitated the complicated plan for cleaning up the
former scrapyard at 1015 N. Washington Ave. on the Saginaw Riverfront.
With zoning and infrastructure in place,
Rifkin Scrap Iron & Metal has signed a development agreement to
locate a facility at the site, once the remediation has been completed
(a key goal of the Saginaw Riverfront Development Commission).
The Ferro-Met Corporation, which leased the 14-acre
property from CSX Transportation, processed scrap metal at the site for
two decades. In 1988 Ferro-Met shut down and it was discovered that the
site contained 26,000 cubic yards of contaminated "fluff" materials,
such as the remains of fabrics and plastics.
In order to address the contamination and have the site
prepared for redevelopment, a group of organizations teamed up to take
on the project. CSX
Transportation agreed to deed the land and contribute $250,000. The
Michigan
Department of Environmental Quality supplied a $1 million grant,
along with $850,000 from the
Environmental Protection
Agency/Saginaw
County Brownfield Redevelopment Authority (discounted loan) and
$90,000 from the
City of Saginaw.
With funding in place, clean-up crews have begun
removing the refuse and top 12 inches of topsoil, making the site ready to be reused for the Rifkin
investment. |
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Central Warehouse Celebrates Expansion |
Johnson St. Reconstruction Complete |
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Central Warehouse
Company celebrates
1 million sq, ft, of
total warehouse
space with Midland
County expansion. |
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$3.5 million road
reconstruction
project complete in
Downtown Saginaw. |
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Central
Warehouse Company celebrated 1 million sq. ft. of total warehouse
space due to a 42, 000 sq ft. expansion project in the City of Midland.
This is an addition to 180,000 sq. ft. of existing warehouse in the City
of Midland's Eastwick Industrial Park.
Central Warehouse Company, a fourth generation family owned business,
is comprised of Central Warehouse Saginaw, Central Warehouse Midland,
Central Warehouse Bay City and Central Warehouse Dayton.
The Saginaw
based company
started in 1910 and has recently been recognized by the
International Warehouse and Logistics Association (IWLA) for outstanding
industry achievement for this accomplishment.
Central Warehouse provides
service for a variety of key businesses in Saginaw and Midland, as well
as globally. Its services include turn key distribution, 3PL and
supply chain services, many types of value added programs and
import/export services. This is the company's third expansion in
five years. |
A $3.5 million reconstruction of Johnson St. from
Washington Ave. to Sixth St. and streetscape project in Downtown Saginaw
has been completed.
The renovation project included five blocks of Johnson
St. that includes frontage of The DowEvent Center. Johnson St. was
reconstructed from Washington Ave. to Sixth St. and included the
replacement of 100-year old water mains.
In conjunction with the road reconstruction, the
City of Saginaw
installed streetscape amenities from Washington Ave. to Second St. The
project included decorative street lights, colored sidewalks and
crosswalks, stone half-walls, benches and landscaping. Besides
being more visually pleasing, the new configuration improves pedestrian
congestion and provides a more safe flow in and out of The Dow.
Federal and state grants accounted for $2.69 million of
the project's funding. Approximately $460,000 was provided by the City
of Saginaw's water surplus fund and $340,000 was from the state gasoline
and weight tax allocated to the city. |
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