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| | 600-Worker Wal-Mart Center Could Hold Steubenville, Ohio's Entire CBD - Site Selection Online Insider |
 | | STEUBENVILLE, Ohio -- In a major step in reversing its economic fortunes, the Steubenville, Ohio, area has been selected by Wal-Mart (www.walmart.com) as the site for a new 600-employee distribution center. |
 | | Significantly, Wal-Mart's vast distribution center "will be the first of its kind in the Ohio Valley, a major new industry for the region," said Rick Platt, director of Alliance 2000 (www.alliance2000.org), a private-public partnership established in 1996 to promote economic development in Jefferson County. |
 | | Employment in the Ohio Valley's steel mills, for example, is roughly half the level of 25 years ago. |
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