Wheeling Truck Center Receives Presidential Award for Exports Wheeling Truck Center, located in south Wheeling, West Virginia, was presented with the President’s “E” Award for exports.  The “E” Awards are the highest recognition any U.S. entity may  receive for making a significant contribution to the expansion of U.S. exports.  Wheeling Truck Center began exporting in 2010 and in 4 years has sold truck parts to 94 countries. “Exporting continues to be the foun...

November 12, 2014 Growth of Williams Lea Group’s Wheeling Operations Center accelerates  The Williams Lea Group announces continued and aggressive expansion plans for their Wheeling operations center. A ribbon cutting ceremony today officially opened an additional 11,250 of square footage at the historic Stone Center building on Main Street in Wheeling, bringing their total space to just under 50,000 square feet. With this expansion comes a variety of new opportunities for employment. The re...

Team Sledd (Sledd Co) announced the grand opening of their new state-of-the-art, 200,000-square-foot distribution facility in the Elm Grove area of Wheeling, West Virginia. The new facility includes expanded warehouse space, office space and an industry-first, their new Convenience Learning Center named Sleddsmart. This innovative resource is a fully functioning convenience store and is utilized as a product demonstration center and a training facility for retailers and sponsoring manufacturers....

RED & Wheeling Jesuit University Announce Expansion to Stone Center Regional Economic Development Partnership (RED) announced that Wheeling Jesuit University (WJU) plans to relocate its Doctor of Physical Therapy program to the Stone Center in Downtown Wheeling. Inside the Stone Center, the PT program will occupy 1 1/2 floors and house a free clinic, which will be staffed by WJU PT students. “We’ve been working hard to fill the Stone Center with the right tenants, ” said Don Ri...

November 17, 2013 The Williams Lea Group has announced it will expand its Wheeling operations to offer more creative services, and will hire 50 additional workers for its Wheeling office by early next year.  Williams Lea has focused on providing document processing and proofreading services in Wheeling since opening its local location in 2007 on the first floor of the Stone Center – located in the former Stone and Thomas building at 1030 Main St.. But England-based Williams Lea has purcha...

In August 2007, AT&T announced plans to open an in-bound call center in Wheeling. The company hired 200 to staff the new facility in the new Highlands Development complex. The call center provides troubleshooting assistance to wireless customers across the country and began operations in Wheeling in 2008. The Ohio County Development Authority has constructed a new building called the Lifestyle Center and leased 45,000 square feet on the second floor to AT&T. Total investment for the proj...

January 2006, purchased the 250,000 sq.-ft. former Marx Toy Building in Glen Dale Creating a minimum of 46 new, good-paying jobs Investing over $13 million Building a system to pump bulk lubricants from barges into tanks for blending to proper specifications and packaging into pails and bottles, some of which will be made by Warren Portions of the plant are in operation, but facility is still under construction Established in 1922, Warren Distribution, Inc., based in Omaha, Neb., manufactures a...

Williams Lea Corporate Information Solutions Wheeling, WV Legal outsourcing company opens office in Wheeling, West Virginia By Tim Huber Of The Associated Press Wheeling allows Williams Lea to enjoy lower real estate and labor costs than big cities. British outsourcing firm Williams Lea is betting that corporate clients will want to keep more sensitive jobs such as transcribing depositions and processing legal documents a little closer to home. ‘’Wheeling is an essential piece of what we’r...

In May 2004, Arrow Concrete announced an expansion of their operations in Marshall County. They purchased 17 acres in the Marshall County Industrial Park in Benwood for a Ready-Mix concrete batch facility. They will retain their workforce of 20 with a $1.5 million-$2 million investment. They plan on opening a pre-cast plant later in the year which would be an additional 20-35 new positions and investment between $1 million-$2 million.

Cabela’s “World’s Foremost Outfitter” took a close look at the RED region and liked what they saw. With assistance from RED and government officials, Ohio County was successful in enticing Cabela’s to locate a 540,000-sq.-ft. distribution center, as well as a retail store of over 175,000 square feet which opened August 2004. Currently, the distribution center has expanded to 1.2 million square feet. In all there are estimated to be 1,200 full-time jobs at the two facilities and an expe...

http://www.the-highlands.com The RED region is growing fast. The Ohio Valley joined an exclusive club when it became home to the tenth Cabela’s Outdoor Outfitters store. This unique shopping experience is the focal point of the Ohio Valley’s newest attraction – The Highlands. Since the construction of the anchor store, the surrounding Highlands area has blossomed into a retail/recreation destination which is unmatched in a 50+ mile radius. Shopping, dining, lodging, movies and theme pa...

In June 2003, OVIBDC announced the lease of 30,000 square feet of industrial space to AES Industries Inc. AES is based in Tallassee, Alabama, and they manufacture architectural products such as diffusers, dampers and curbs used in air movement and control systems for large commercial buildings. AES employs over 30 people in their facility, with the potential of increasing in the future. They contacted RED who assisted with the location search.

Wheeling, WV Opened: January 2004 The Regional Economic Development Partnership worked cooperatively with the City of Wheeling to attract Computer Sciences Corp. to downtown Wheeling. CSC was awarded the FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Call Center contract, worth approximately $48 million. CSC provides support to government agencies in the areas of contact center solutions, secure identification card solutions, information technology solutions, and operations support...

This began as a $2.9 million project partially funded through a United States Economic Development Administration (EDA) grant. There are over 79,000 square feet of space, with Touchstone Research Laboratories as the major tenant, and there is additional land to be developed in the park. Building I completed 1990 Building II completed 1993 Building III completed 2001 Building IV contracted 2006 Expansion for additional production is ongoing....

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP Global Operations Center (GOC) Wheeling, WV Cost Savings: Over $5 million per year. Partnership: Cooperation between all parties allowed this 80,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing building to be rehabilitated into Class A office space within six months. Opened: 2002 Employees: Nearly 200 Overview: $13 million project for the Global Operations Center for Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP, an international law firm. Redeveloped a 100-year-old industrial buildin...

The Regional Economic Development Partnership is a project-oriented organization and its past work with TeleTech again demonstrates how a cooperative effort by a number of public and private entities can produce an impressive project. RED developed and owns the 58,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art customer service center, which now provides 500 jobs for the local area. RED coordinated the financing/incentive package for the $13 million project with the West Virginia Development Office, the West Virgi...