This article originally comes from the Patch
Avina Clean Hydrogen’s plans to develop an $820 million sustainable aviation fuel plant facility in the St. Louis region – and the process that influenced the company’s site selection – were spotlighted during FreightWeekSTL. Avina is a New Jersey-based company that designs, builds, and operates facilities that produce cost-effective clean fuels for aviation, maritime and mobility industries. It will be building its new facility on a rail-served site identified and marketed by the St. Louis Regional Freightway, which hosted the June 6 virtual panel discussion. The panel featured Brent Wood, President of Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis (TRRA), and Doug Rasmussen, Founder & CEO at Steadfast City Economic and Community Partners.
With several rail-served development sites in the region, TRRA has connections to all six Class I railroads, two Mississippi River bridges and 170 miles of track in the St. Louis area, along with having capacity for 1,200 storage cars and a yard capacity of 2,200 to 2,500 cars at a time. It was one of TRRA’s sites that was selected for the Avina project. Steadfast City is a site selection, economic development, community development and urban planning consulting firm that works closely with the St. Louis Regional Freightway on its featured real estate sites initiative, which Rasmussen describes as a best practice for attracting industrial development.
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