Alta Vista lands two more tenants
Middle Monongahela Industrial Development Association is exploring the possibility of bringing a hotel to Alta Vista Business Park near Bentleyville.
Two more businesses are locating at Alta Vista, an industrial park near Bentleyville that is being developed by the Middle Monongahela Industrial Development Authority.
Alta Vista Business Park has been energized again by the oil and gas industry with two recent deals.
Lue Ann Pawlick, executive director of the Middle Monongahela Industrial Development Association, developer for the 256-acre park near Bentleyville, said Wednesday MIDA recently sold a 9.2-acre parcel to Scientific Drilling International, a Houston, Texas, company that provides high-accuracy drilling navigation for the oil and gas, geothermal and mining industries.
Pawlick said the company closed two weeks ago on the property and should begin building on the site soon. She said SDI intends to bring between 150 and 200 jobs to the park.
SDI, which has operations around the world, has its Northeast district office in Finleyville.
A woman who answered the phone Wednesday at SDI’s headquarters in Houston said all of the personnel at the Finleyville site will be moving to Alta Vista, and others would probably be hired there.
She said SDI should begin construction this summer.
MIDA also is finalizing a sale of a 5-acre site at Alta Vista for Houston-based Waukesha-Pearce Industries, a global designer and packager of engine-driven equipment, including power generation, pumps, blowers, control panels and switch gears.
Pawlick said the company will refurbish generators at the Alta Vista site and return them to oil and gas customers working in the area. She said the company plans to bring about 50 people to the park.
With the addition of the two companies, she said, Alta Vista, which broke ground in 2002, is now home to 600 workers.
The site also is home to an operation of Weatherford, a company that refurbishes gas drilling equipment, and Gardner Denver Nash, which manufactures compressors.
The association also will begin making more land available to future companies.
Pawlick said MIDA soon will begin construction of a road that will provide access to 70 usable acres at the top of the park’s site. The work also will include street lights and other infrastructure.
She said MIDA also is exploring the possibility of bringing a hotel to the site.
Beyond Alta Vista, MIDA also is selling 3 acres in the Donora Industrial Park to Regal Industrial Corp., which is expanding its operations in the park.