Slide1: Successes Through Land Use Management Delegate K. Steven Kominar, (D) Mingo County September 28, 2005


Public / Private Partnerships: Public / Private Partnerships Forming Partnerships to Leverage Natural Assets Into Job Producing, Tax Creating Economic Development Projects Land Use Master Plan Mingo County Wood Products Industrial Park Twisted Gun Golf Course King Coal Highway


Mingo County Land Use Master Plan: Mingo County Land Use Master Plan Adopted November 28, 2001


Wood Products Industrial Park: Wood Products Industrial Park 650 Acres Before Development in 2000 Transforming reclaimed, mine-scarred lands…


Slide5: Wood Products Industrial Park 40 Acre Development - Completed in 2001 Hardwood Flooring Plant, Dry Kiln, and Inventory Facilities …..into a state of the art industrial park


Slide6: Wood Products Industrial Park Progress through Partnerships Financing Department of Commerce EDA Appalachian Region Commission Small Cities Block Grant DOH Industrial Access Road WV Legislature WV Development Office WV IJDC Local Lending Institutions Region II Planning & Dev. Council Mingo County Commission Mingo County Redevelopment Authority Site Development International Industries Cole & Crane Real Estate Trust Georgia-Pacific Land Company Allegheny Land Company Hobet Mining Company Ashland Coal Company West Virginia DEP OSM $30 million capital investment - $15 million from private sector


Slide7: Wood Products Industrial Park Columbia Flooring, Inc. Hardwood Flooring Manufacturing and Dry Kiln Facilities employ 250+ people


Wood Products Industrial Park: Wood Products Industrial Park 2004 Region 3 Phoenix Award Winner Winners are recognized annually - one from each of the EPA’s 10 regions - for solving the critical environmental challenge of transforming abandoned industrial areas into productive new uses.


Wood Products Industrial Park - Phase II: Wood Products Industrial Park - Phase II Newly developed sites - 80 acres and 20 acres Expected Completion – September 2005 $3.5 million West Virginia EDA Grant


Slide10: Twisted Gun Golf Course Constructed as a post mine land use project Opened Fall 2001 -- $2.3 million, 100% private sector investment


Slide11: I-73 / 74 King Coal Highway Building roads as a post mine land use project Land Use Master Planning At Its Best!


Slide12: Progress through Partnerships…… WV Division of Highways, WV DEP, and Nicewonder Contracting I-73 / 74 King Coal Highway 1/2 mile section to final grade only paving and guard-railing remain


Slide13: I-73 / 74 King Coal Highway Portion of 10 Mile Red Jacket Section A land use partnership saving millions of taxpayer dollars.. The recent federal appropriation of $47 Million (earmarked for Mingo County) will complete 15 miles of the King Coal Highway. Portion of 10 Mile Red Jacket Section


Slide14: Mingo County Redevelopment Authority “Planning for a brighter future” Board of Directors: Terry Sammons, K. Steven Kominar, James Simpkins, Paul Pinson, Andy Dillon, Everett Hannah