Westmoreland financial improvement marketing director retires following just one final offer

Joe Sisley’s fingerprints are all more than economic enhancement in Westmoreland County.

“Joe has sold or leased each residence in Westmoreland County’s industrial park system,” said Jason Rigone, govt director of the county’s Industrial Enhancement Corp.

There are much more than 170 providers occupying 1,200 acres of land and — until eventually the coronavirus pandemic — utilizing up to 10,000 staff in the county’s 18 industrial parks. Sisley, 66, of Hempfield, has been instrumental in it all. Right after a 43-calendar year career as the marketing director of the county’s financial improvement agency, Sisley is retiring at year’s end.

He was there when the county’s very first industrial park was constructed in early 1980s and sealed the final deal of his extensive vocation this thirty day period with the sale of a 6.23 acre great deal in Westmoreland Business enterprise & Study Park, in Washington Township and Higher Burrell, to WAB Associates LLC.

The company signifies New Jersey-based Weiss-Aug Team, which options to construct a 60,000 sq. foot producing facility with office environment area in the park. Weiss-Aug Group is a existing tenant in the park with its JK Device operation, which expanded before this yr. Particulars of the new production procedure were being not disclosed but county officers mentioned it is anticipated the company’s full employment at the park to grow in excess of the following 3 to five decades to 75, up from the current employees of 25.

Westmoreland Company & Investigation Park was built in 1992 and now serves as household to 21 companies that employ more than 2,580 staff. It generates about $1.9 million in county and neighborhood taxes each individual yr, county officials said. Just just one ton and about 3.6 acres at the park remain unsold or leased.

In all, the county’s industrial park system generates about $7 million in home tax revenue for the county.

Rigone explained the achievements of the county’s industrial park application and the near completion of the Westmoreland Enterprise and Investigate Park is due in huge part to Sisley’s efforts.

“If you know men and women who work in Westmoreland County and in the industrial parks, Joe’s in all probability experienced a hand in that,” Rigone explained.

Sisley, a smooth-spoken gentleman who…