an option sales agreement to purchase a 21.78-acre lot. This leaves available two parcels — a nearly 30-acre lot with a pad area of 25.65 acres and a nearly 20-acre lot with a 9.8-acre pad area — in the Sewickley Township industrial park. Both offer rail-connectivity as an option. In the central part of the county, BGH Properties LLC signed an option agreement in May to purchase a 3.86- acre lot in Westmoreland Airpark in Unity Township. Located along Route 981 across from Arnold Palmer Regional Airport, the Airpark currently has available eight lots ranging in size from 5.02 to 8.2 acres. We’ll finish with some news of the WCIDC’s leasable property. After signing two new commercial tenants to long- term leases, we now have more than 99 percent of our leasable property under agreement. In May, Westmoreland Community Action opened its new administrative headquarters in our
GreenForge Building in Hempfield. A nonprofit agency dedicated to strengthening communities and families to eliminate poverty, Westmoreland Community Action experienced significant program growth in 2020-21. And in June, Greensburg-based Scott Electric Company signed a five-year lease for 50,095 square feet of space in Jeannette Industrial Park. Scott Electric has been in business since 1946 and employs 680 people at multiple locations. It plans to move one of its wholly owned subsidiaries to the recently renovated suite. The Scott Electric lease brings the 212,000 square foot facility to full occupancy.
occupied. It has approximately 700,000 square feet of available lease space.
That’s not the only drink industry-related development news coming out of Westmoreland this year. Frank B. Fuhrer Wholesale Co. has embarked on a major expansion project with construction of a 300,000 square foot office and distribution center on 40 acres at the intersection of Routes 22 and 66. The project, which is being built on a former Beckwith Machinery property in Salem and Washington townships, is expected to be completed next summer. The expansion will enable the region’s largest beer distributor to nearly double its size. Shifting our focus southward to the Waltz Mill exchange of Interstate 70, Al. Neyer is nearing completion of the first facility at Commerce Crossing at Westmoreland, a 250,000 square foot Class-A distribution center. That’s not the only news coming out of the park — in April, M&G Realty entered into
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