Two ElectriCities Smart Sites were recently selected for development in the public power communities of Wilson and Greenville, both in North Carolina.
An entire ElectriCities Smart Site in Greenville, North Carolina, will be home to a manufacturing facility set to employ more than 230 people. Nipro Medical Corporation, a Japanese medical device manufacturer, will invest $397 million in the Smart Site to build its 500,000-square-foot facility.
In Wilson, IDEXX Laboratories, Inc., a global leader in pet healthcare innovation, selected an ElectriCities Smart Site for its manufacturing plant. The facility will create 275 jobs, and IDEXX will invest $147 million in Wilson.
“These announcements represent the latest in a trend of our state’s economic wins landing on ElectriCities-designated Smart Sites,” said Carl Rees, ElectriCities Manager of Economic and Community Development. “With Smart Sites, ElectriCities takes the guesswork out of site selection so companies can confidently invest in public power communities.”
ElectriCities created the Smart Site program to help its public power member communities in North Carolina—cities and towns that own and operate their electric systems—prepare shovel-ready sites for economic development.
Smart Sites must meet specific requirements and undergo an extensive review process that makes the sites ready for industrial permitting at the local, state, and federal levels. Each site must have municipal electric service, water and sewer access within 500 feet, and be within 5 miles of an interstate or interstate-quality highway. ElectriCities markets Smart Sites at trade shows and industry events around the world to get the word out about prime industrial development sites in local public power communities.
See the complete list of Smart Sites on the ElectriCities website.
To learn more about the Smart Sites program or economic development in public power communities in North Carolina, contact Casey Verburg, Senior Economic Developer at ElectriCities, or visit http://www.electricities.com/EconDev.