WASHINGTON

Pallets in Washington County

Washington County, south of Pittsburgh along I-79 and I-70, mixes the Southpointe business park's energy and pharmaceutical firms with beverage bottling and light industry in the city of Washington.

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Seat: Washington
Population, 2020: 209,349
Business park: Southpointe, about 800 acres

01 Roads and ground

I-70 and I-79 cross the county, joined by US 19, 22 and 40 and the Turnpike's 43 and 576 spurs. Washington is the seat. Municipalities include Canonsburg, Charleroi and Monongahela, and Core Natural Resources' Enlow Fork coal mine is in the county.

02 Pallet profile

Place	Typical need
Southpointe	Few pallets, new or grade A, for equipment and lab freight
City of Washington	Beverage: 48 x 42; paper and packaging: 48 x 40
Rest of the county	Mixed light industrial

03 Starpointe and the river sites

Starpointe Business Park covers 1,153 acres zoned for manufacturing and industry, with a first phase of 325 acres that has sites ready for building, about twelve minutes from Pittsburgh International Airport by way of the Findlay Connector of the Southern Beltway. The Mon River Industrial Park is a flat riverfront property with heavy utilities already in place.

The county also sits over the Marcellus Shale, so energy firms and their suppliers are a steady source of equipment crates and small orders, separate from the office tenants at Southpointe.

04 Largest employers

The county's largest private employers are hospitals, a racetrack and casino, a telecoms tower company, a university, an energy producer and a software firm. Only some of those ship goods at all. The rest mean offices, kitchens and clinics, whose pallets are the occasional delivery rather than a daily outbound stream.

05 Eastern and western halves

The north of the county, near Canonsburg and Southpointe, is the office and business-park side. The south and west, along the Monongahela and toward the West Virginia line, hold older river towns, farmland and energy sites.

06 Cecil Township and Southpointe

Southpointe is a business park in Cecil Township beside I-79 near Canonsburg, home mostly to energy, pharmaceutical and software firms.

How big and how full

The original development was a 589-acre business park, and Southpointe I and II together reached 800 acres by 2013; the Washington County Chamber lists Southpointe II at 217 acres. The Chamber reports more than 300 companies and nearly 15,000 employees.

Tenants

Tenants include Ansys, Viatris, Range Resources, EQT, Core Natural Resources, Millcraft Industries and CentiMark, and the Washington County Chamber's list adds Columbia Gas, Crown Castle, Halliburton, Schlumberger and Weatherford. The park is mostly offices, so its pallets arrive with equipment and supplies, not outbound manufacturing.

Neighbours

Cecil Township borders McDonald to the north-northwest, Canonsburg to the south, Peters Township to the east and South Fayette across the county line to the north. Five ZIP codes cover it.

Pallets for offices

Equipment and field gear: new pallets, 48 x 40.
Lab and pharmaceutical freight: grade A or new, clean, HT for export.
Occasional clear-outs after office moves.

How Southpointe came about

Planning for Southpointe began in the 1980s, when the county's redevelopment authority and RIDC looked at land that had held the state's Western Center, a facility for people with intellectual disabilities. Millcraft Industries was the developer.

07 Washington, PA

Washington, PA is the Washington County seat, a small city whose industries include beverage bottling and whose big employers are a hospital, a college and county government.

Older, smaller plants

Washington grew from farming into an industrial city after oil and gas were found in the 1880s. Glass was its signature trade, with Duncan and Miller tableware and three Hazel-Atlas plants, and Washington Steel made stainless here until its mills closed. Those trades left the city's industrial buildings older and smaller than the newer parks beside the interstates, so a pile of pallets there is more likely to sit behind a small plant than a large distribution centre.

Employers

UPMC Washington, county government and Washington and Jefferson College are the largest employers, and businesses include Millcraft Industries, Tanger Outlets and Cameron Coca-Cola. A hospital and a college generate receiving-dock pallets, though not many.

Pallets

Use	Spec
Beverage bottling	48 x 42, block; grade A
Paper and packaging distribution	48 x 40, stable stacks
Healthcare receiving	A few; clean, graded A

Q Questions

What is Southpointe?

A business park of about 800 acres in Cecil Township, beside I-79.

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