Courtesy of Westmoreland County IDC
The Westmoreland Business & Research Park, seen here in 2017, sits off State Route 780 in Washington and Upper Burrell townships.
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Directors for the Westmoreland County Industrial Development Corp. have approved an option agreement for a lot at the Westmoreland Business & Research Park that will add a new manufacturing facility and office building, along with potentially 50 new jobs.
The agreement gives WAB Associates six months to finalize the $218,050 purchase of Lot 22. WAB represents the New Jersey-based Weiss-Aug Group, which WCIDC officials said are planning to build a 40,000-square-foot manufacturing and office building.
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Part of the recently passed $1.9 trillion federal pandemic relief package includes a good chunk of money intended for local governments with up to about $2.4 billion for municipalities in Pennsylvania.
Like elsewhere in the state, many in Westmoreland County still are wondering just how much they will get to cover lost revenue and unexpected expenses over the past year from the coronavirus pandemic. Several local officials also said it is not yet clear exactly how the money can be used.
There’s nothing like a disaster to show you what you have and what you need.
Westmoreland County Commissioners said Thursday that the coronavirus pandemic has shown them what they don’t need: a county health department.
For almost a year, the county has responded to the increasing challenges of covid-19 without that central hub of organization and information that neighboring Allegheny County has to provide assessment and guidance.
Allegheny is authorized by state law to have a health department just like Bucks, Chester, Erie, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties and Allentown, Bethlehem, Wilkes-Barre and York cities. Westmoreland, like other counties, is not included in the 1976 law that gave that OK. Asking for a change doesn’t seem like much of a problem.