On July 15th, 2024, Crossgates, Inc. and Elmhurst Development LLC held a celebration for their Brockway Glass Plant Site Redevelopment Project that represented the transition from dilapidated factory buildings to the groundbreaking for the first building that will be constructed on the redeveloped site. To date, the project has included the demolition of the former factory’s buildings, construction of a new access road, environmental remediation, and the installation of stormwater infrastructure. Expected to be the first large-scale speculative Class A industrial building in Washington County’s recent memory, the building is planned to be 100,000 square feet for warehouse, office, light industrial, or manufacturing use. The roughly 20-acre site located at the crossroads of Interstates 70 and 79 was home to the former Brockway Glass plant that closed its doors in the 1980s. As a tribute to the site’s past, the redeveloped site is planned to be called the Brockway Commerce Center.
Labelled as the “Gateway into Washington County”, the redevelopment venture reflects a $21 million public-private partnership between Crossgates, Inc. and Elmhurst Development LLC under the partnership of Running Brooke II Associates, State representatives, Washington County Commissioners, Canton Township, and the Redevelopment Authority who were all in attendance at the event. As a project partner, the Redevelopment Authority has administered approximately $3.5 million between the Local Share Account (LSA), Business in our Sites (BOS), Industrial Sites Reuse Program (ISRP), Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP), and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Assessment Grant funds. The site has also received an additional $2.5 million of RACP funding that RACW will be administering.
