Marshfield Allows Business to Start Work on New Location
Wednesday, October 4th, 2017 -- 8:02 AM
(WDLB) -Marshfield aldermen will let the Packaging Corporation of America start work on the site of its new plant in the city before it actually owns the property.During a special meeting, the Common Council last night voted in favor of an early occupancy agreement with P-C-A. City Administrator Steve Barg says the agreement allows P-C-A to start construction on a new 270-thousand square-foot facility in the eastside Yellowstone Industrial Park before taking ownership of the parcel of property November first. Last night's vote comes on the heels of a vote by the Council last week approving a rail extension from an existing spur to the P-C-A property. Mayor Chris Meyer says the rail extension will serve everyone in the Yellowstone Industrial Park, and not just P-C-A. P-C-A will be closing its current plant in Colby, and building a new production facility in Marshfield.
The city has agreed to commit just over three-million dollars up front to assist P-C-A in building a 15 million-dollar facility. The deal will relocate 80 jobs currently in Colby, and create 20 new jobs as well. The P-C-A plant in Colby is the company's top-performing facility nationally, but it's also outdated, and it's land-locked--with no room for expansion. The new P-C-A plant will be in the range of 230-thousand to 270-thousand square feet. Construction is scheduled to be completed in late spring or early summer of 2018, with production starting in the new facility by the end of next year.
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