WELLSBURG, W.Va. — The Business Development Corporation’s achievements will be put in the spotlight by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the coming months. Officials from the EPA will pay a visit to Brooke and Hancock counties for a few days to profile the BDC’s efforts to repurpose abandoned mills and Brownfield properties. EPA officials toured some of the industrial sites the BDC is working to repurpose, like the Wheeling Corrugating Plant and the former Brooke Glass site.
They will create a podcast to show at the National Brownfields Conference in September. “To illustrate other communities throughout the U.S. can take control of abandoned and dilapidated properties just like we are,” explained Pat Ford, executive director of the BDC of the Northern Panhandle.
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