Posted on 08/03/2017 10:21:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
PISCATAWAY - An $80 million modern manufacturing plant being built in Piscataway will bring 120 jobs to the area and new life to an abandoned chemical factory, officials said Thursday.
Cascades, Inc. produces, converts and markets packaging and tissue products that are composed mainly of recycled fibers. The new state-of-the-art, 400,000-square-foot facility will manufacture corrugated packaging products at the new facility, according to a release from the company.
Piscataway Mayor Brian C. Wahler said it's an important development for the town.
"Not only are we getting an old site back on the tax rolls, but we'll be gaining a tremendous boost in our recycling numbers, which means more grant money," Wahler said. "I expect we'll be number one in the state."
The facility will be located at an old chemical plant on Turner Place off S. Washington Avenue near Stelton Road, the mayor said. It's visible from Route 287 and has a freight train rail line that runs through it, which means less trucks.....
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
As a Jerseyan I’m happy to see the job loss trend pause for a bit, but there are real problems here where the municipal, county, and state workforces haven’t been reduced to reflect the economic reality. Trying to entice businesses too often puts even more of a tax burden on individual homeowners, and that is quickly reducing our taxpaying population (hence the “sanctuary state” we’ve created). We have bloated government payrolls as a legacy of large commercial taxpayers, and they’ve been disappearing for years - that is why we have the highest property taxes in the nation.
“...that is why we have the highest property taxes in the nation....”
My first thought was, how do you attract employees from out of state? Can they find enough qualified people already in New Jersey? People who work, but don’t feel like they are getting any better off, will use the job to look for another one elsewhere.
Nice...
It is hard to attract employers OR employees, because now everyone knows that moving to NJ (or CA, NY, IL) is just buying a share in a massive IOU - and more and more current revenues have to be used to pay government workers who retired decades ago.
Hmmmm.
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