Economic development leaders are rethinking uses for Sony's former Westmoreland County manufacturing plant, reports the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Just two dozen people now work for Sony in the massive plant that employed more than 3,000 people at the height of its days producing TVs almost the size of the Volkswagens.
Economic development officials look at this sprawling building and see a great location and nice amenities -- the industrial equivalent of granite counter tops and a jacuzzi. If they can fill the plant with a collection of smaller users that create just one job for every 1,000 square feet, the equation would produce about 2,800 jobs. That's almost as many as Sony once employed.
"We really think the utilities and amenities of that particular site, in addition to its scale, make it a really unique asset," said Donald F. Smith Jr., the president of the Regional Industrial Development Corporation.
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