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		<title>McCarthy Pushes New I-95 Exit to Aid Biz Development, Reinstates Rail Priorities; Puts Moore Bus &#8216;Hub&#8217; in Back Seat</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2017 23:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County Executive Alan McCarthy wants a new Interstate 95 interchange to serve new businesses coming to the Principio business park and has reinstated commuter rail expansion in Cecil County as top priorities, in contrast to a puzzling push last year by former county executive Tari Moore to make a bus garage and pie-in-the-sky rail station in North East her top priority for state transportation aid to the county. McCarthy outlined his transportation priorities in a letter to State Secretary of Transportation Pete Rahn that was submitted to the County Council on Tuesday (3/21/2017), as part of an annual process to set county priorities. Members of the Council generally welcomed McCarthy’s new priorities. A new interchange on Interstate 95, at Belvedere Road, would serve the Principio Business Park, where several major new warehousing operations are under construction, including an Amazon “fulfillment center” expected to create 700 jobs and a “distribution center” for Lidl, a German grocery operation that is entering US markets for the first time. Now, I-95 traffic to Principio would access the site from exits in Perryville or North East, then travel along Route 40. A more direct interchange route would speed up access to the warehouses while [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Economy: Two Employers Contrasts, Florklifters vs. Skilled Tech Jobs; Store Cashiers Top Future Job Growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2017 21:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS Cecil County had some good economic development news this week, for a change, with the formal announcement of 700 jobs with online retailer Amazon coming to a mega-warehouse near Perryville. But enthusiasm should be tempered with a dose of economic reality on the shortcomings of the local workforce and the paucity of better-paying tech jobs that could expand the local economy and taxbase. While Amazon will bring warehouse operations, employing forklift operators and order-pullers to its “fulfillment center” at a new 10-year leased facility at the Principio business park off Route 40, the quality of the local county workforce and job creation expectations do not bode well for the future in Cecil County, where a new study of workforce skills and expected job opportunities projects that the highest number of new jobs through 2022 in the area will be for low-paid store cashiers. At the same time, a high-value new employer in the county that has built a permanent, owned and operated facility had a positive workforce view—because it recruited computer and technology-savvy workers from other areas. John Ragone, managing director of energy development partnerships for Old Dominion Electric Co-operative, told the Cecil County Council this week that [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon to Open Huge Warehouse in Principio Park; 700  Jobs Expected in Cecil County</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2017 17:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Alexa, bring 700 jobs to Cecil County, ASAP.”—Cecil County government “Of course. My Pleasure.”—Amazon Echo’s “Alexa” virtual assistant Online retailer Amazon will open a $90 million mega-warehouse, employing up to 700 full-time workers, in the Principio Business Park off Route 40 near Perryville. State loan/grants of over $1.2 million and a Cecil County government contribution of $120,000 drawn from casino revenues will assist the project. The Baltimore Business Journal first identified Amazon as the tenant of the planned 1 million square feet distribution center in its Friday editions. Since all parties to the transaction had signed confidentiality agreements, the transaction had been shrouded in secrecy, even as a resolution was introduced into the Cecil County Council on Tuesday 1/3/17 to endorse a state loan for the project and to commit county aid to it. In documents submitted to the Council, the project was referred to as “Project Iron.” However, CECIL TIMES has since verified the identity of the new warehouse tenant as Amazon with several sources. A public disclosure of Amazon’s project is expected to be made on Tuesday, 1/17/17 when the Council is slated to vote on the resolution at its evening meeting. Members of the County Council were [&#8230;]]]></description>
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