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Start with moving a whole lot of earth, both above the ground and below.
The City of Hornell Industrial Development Agency this week continued to set the foundation for a new 135,000 square foot rail car manufacturing facility on Shawmut Drive, applying for a $4.5 million grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) to offset some costs associated with the project.
The IDA previously secured a $689,000 loan from the Regional Economic Development and Energy Corporation (REDEC) to make the land in the Shawmut Industrial Park “site ready” for development. The IDA took on the project anticipating Alstom would be awarded a contract by Metra to supply a new fleet of rail cars for the Chicago metropolitan area. That foresight was rewarded earlier this year when Alstom won the contract and moved forward with plans for a new car shell manufacturing facility based in Hornell.
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HORNELL Snow isn’t the only thing that will be flying in the Maple City this winter.
A good deal of dirt will also be on the move.
The City of Hornell Industrial Development Agency (IDA) has signed off on just under $500,000 in site work at the Shawmut Industrial Park. The IDA approved a $498,191 contract with LeChase Construction, which will soon have some heavy machinery on site to make the land “shovel ready” for future development.
“It’s all uneven in there. Our idea was to go in there, straighten that site up and make it a good industrial site,” said Hornell IDA president and CEO Jim Griffin. “That’s still the purpose of this project. We have a contract ready to go with LeChase. We put it out to bid and they were the low bidder. We’re going to do a lot of work up there not specific work for anybo