By Karen Robes Meeks
Satsop Business Park Manager of Business Development Alissa Shay was named to the South Sound Business Magazine’s 2018 class of 40 Under 40.
“It is an honor to be working to create more job opportunities for people in our region while helping existing port customers be successful in Grays Harbor,” Shay said. “I am proud of the work we do to help make Grays Harbor a prosperous and vibrant community.”
Shay started her career at the port in 2013 following more than five years as a city planner for the city of Hoquiam.
In her current position, Shay has helmed the recruitment of Xpress Natural Gas, Overstock.com’s Customer Care Call Center and Fuller Hill Development Co., who in total employ more than 350 people at the park.
“Alissa is most deserving of this honor and we are proud of all she has accomplished during her tenure,” said Port of Grays Harbor Executive Director Gary Nelson. “I am confident the port and the community will continue to benefit from her leadership and experience as her career continues to flourish.”
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Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Grays Harbor Tours
By Karen Robes Meeks
The Port of Grays Harbor is offering tours this summer as part of Your Jobs, Your Community, Your Port, an annual outreach program.
The 90-minute tour starts with an overview of the port’s past and present, followed by a bus tour of industrial properties and marine terminals in the Aberdeen and Hoquiam area.
Tours will take place at 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. on June 28, July 12 and August 8.
Space is limited so reservations are needed. Call 360-533-9528 to RSVP or for more information.
Meanwhile, the Satsop Business Park has been conducting walking tours of its facilities, such as the cooling towers, tunnel training facility, warehouses, and office buildings.
Walking tours will take place at 3 p.m. on June 28, July 13, August 10 and September 27, and at 5:30 p.m. on July 26 and August 23.
Participants need to be at least eight years old and wear comfortable closed-toe shoes to take the tour. Space is limited so guests must make a reservation. Call 360-482-1600 to RSVP or for more details.
The Port of Grays Harbor is offering tours this summer as part of Your Jobs, Your Community, Your Port, an annual outreach program.
The 90-minute tour starts with an overview of the port’s past and present, followed by a bus tour of industrial properties and marine terminals in the Aberdeen and Hoquiam area.
Tours will take place at 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. on June 28, July 12 and August 8.
Space is limited so reservations are needed. Call 360-533-9528 to RSVP or for more information.
Meanwhile, the Satsop Business Park has been conducting walking tours of its facilities, such as the cooling towers, tunnel training facility, warehouses, and office buildings.
Walking tours will take place at 3 p.m. on June 28, July 13, August 10 and September 27, and at 5:30 p.m. on July 26 and August 23.
Participants need to be at least eight years old and wear comfortable closed-toe shoes to take the tour. Space is limited so guests must make a reservation. Call 360-482-1600 to RSVP or for more details.
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Overstock to Double at Grays Harbor
By Karen Robes Meeks
Overstock.com’s presence in the Port of Grays Harbor’s Satsop Business Park will double in size.
The Port Harbor Commission recently agreed to a lease amendment that will increase the Salt Lake City, Utah-based company’s footprint to include the 43,000-square-foot Flex Tech Building. Overstock.com expects to be operational by October 1.
“We are extremely excited for Overstock’s expansion at the Park and the additional jobs it will bring to the region,” announced Commission President Jack Thompson. “Overstock has been a wonderful partner for the Satsop Business Park and Grays Harbor as a whole. We are confident they will be able to add more local, quality employees to their team here in Washington.”
The approval comes three months after commissioners welcomed Overstock.com with a ribbon-cutting ceremony of the company’s Evergreen Customer Care Call Center at the Satsop Business Park, a move that is expected to add at least 150 new employees all likely to come from the five-county region of Grays Harbor, Thurston, Lewis, Mason and Pacific.
“Our Elma-based associates are performing well and providing excellent customer care, and the response from the community has been everything we could have hoped for thus far,” said Overstock.com Senior Vice President Carter Lee. “As a result, we’ve moved up plans to expand our Evergreen Customer Care center, and are looking forward to finding more amazing associates from the community to join our Overstock family.”
Satsop Business Park is a mixed-use facility located two hours away from Seattle, Wash., that is home to more than 30 businesses and 600 acres of developed land and buildings. The Grays Harbor Public Development Authority, which developed the site, transferred the park’s management and assets to the Port of Grays Harbor in January 2013.
Overstock.com’s presence in the Port of Grays Harbor’s Satsop Business Park will double in size.
The Port Harbor Commission recently agreed to a lease amendment that will increase the Salt Lake City, Utah-based company’s footprint to include the 43,000-square-foot Flex Tech Building. Overstock.com expects to be operational by October 1.
“We are extremely excited for Overstock’s expansion at the Park and the additional jobs it will bring to the region,” announced Commission President Jack Thompson. “Overstock has been a wonderful partner for the Satsop Business Park and Grays Harbor as a whole. We are confident they will be able to add more local, quality employees to their team here in Washington.”
The approval comes three months after commissioners welcomed Overstock.com with a ribbon-cutting ceremony of the company’s Evergreen Customer Care Call Center at the Satsop Business Park, a move that is expected to add at least 150 new employees all likely to come from the five-county region of Grays Harbor, Thurston, Lewis, Mason and Pacific.
“Our Elma-based associates are performing well and providing excellent customer care, and the response from the community has been everything we could have hoped for thus far,” said Overstock.com Senior Vice President Carter Lee. “As a result, we’ve moved up plans to expand our Evergreen Customer Care center, and are looking forward to finding more amazing associates from the community to join our Overstock family.”
Satsop Business Park is a mixed-use facility located two hours away from Seattle, Wash., that is home to more than 30 businesses and 600 acres of developed land and buildings. The Grays Harbor Public Development Authority, which developed the site, transferred the park’s management and assets to the Port of Grays Harbor in January 2013.
Friday, June 9, 2017
New Business at Grays Harbor
By Karen Robes Meeks
The Port of Grays Harbor’s Satsop Business Park recently welcomed its newest tenant with the grand opening of Overstock.com’s “Evergreen” Customer Care Call Center.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and other lawmakers were present for the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the new 20,000 square feet of office space that the online company began leasing in December.
“Overstock’s grand opening celebration was a testament to the amazing local and regional partnerships that helped this occur on such an expedited timeframe,” said Greater Grays Harbor, Inc. CEO Dru Garson. “It was great to see representation from all of the various partners at the event along with all of the enthusiastic, smiling faces of the new Overstock.com employees.”
Overstock.com, which began the hiring process in January, started taking calls in early May.
“We are thrilled to welcome Overstock.com as a partner and tenant at the Satsop Business Park and even more excited to see 150 individuals coming to work here every day,” said Business Development Manager Alissa Shay. Satsop Business Park, which recently earned the Outstanding Job Creator Award from the Washington Public Ports Association, is a mixed-use facility two hours away from Seattle that is home to more than 30 businesses and 600 acres of developed land and buildings.
The Grays Harbor Public Development Authority, which developed the site, transferred the park’s management and assets to the Port of Grays Harbor in January 2013.
The Port of Grays Harbor’s Satsop Business Park recently welcomed its newest tenant with the grand opening of Overstock.com’s “Evergreen” Customer Care Call Center.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and other lawmakers were present for the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the new 20,000 square feet of office space that the online company began leasing in December.
“Overstock’s grand opening celebration was a testament to the amazing local and regional partnerships that helped this occur on such an expedited timeframe,” said Greater Grays Harbor, Inc. CEO Dru Garson. “It was great to see representation from all of the various partners at the event along with all of the enthusiastic, smiling faces of the new Overstock.com employees.”
Overstock.com, which began the hiring process in January, started taking calls in early May.
“We are thrilled to welcome Overstock.com as a partner and tenant at the Satsop Business Park and even more excited to see 150 individuals coming to work here every day,” said Business Development Manager Alissa Shay. Satsop Business Park, which recently earned the Outstanding Job Creator Award from the Washington Public Ports Association, is a mixed-use facility two hours away from Seattle that is home to more than 30 businesses and 600 acres of developed land and buildings.
The Grays Harbor Public Development Authority, which developed the site, transferred the park’s management and assets to the Port of Grays Harbor in January 2013.
Friday, October 16, 2015
Grays Harbor Approves CNG Facility
By Mark Edward Nero
At an Oct. 13 meeting, the Port of Grays Harbor Commission approved a ten-year lease for 4.3 acres with Xpress Natural Gas LLC, paving the way for the port to eventually become landlord to a $3 million compressed natural gas facility.
Xpress Natural Gas has been given approval to build a compressed natural gas distribution terminal that in the port’s Satsop Business Park area that would utilize the existing natural gas line to fill portable tubes for transport to industrial customers throughout the region.
An additional $2 million would be invested in the fleet of CNG trucks and trailers that will service XNG’s customers. The operation would be manned 24 hours per day and XNG said it expects to employ 20-25 people at full build out, in addition to the construction and trucking service jobs that would be generated.
XNG operates similar facilities in New York and Maine.
“Energy is a growing sector of our nation’s economy and we are excited a new business will be able to take advantage of one of the Park’s great assets, the natural gas line,” said Alissa Shay, Satsop Business Park’s manager of business development.
XNG is a Boston-based logistics and transportation company that manages a “virtual pipeline” that provides trucked natural gas solutions to locations where a pipeline does not provide gas service.
XNG operates one of the largest fleet of high-capacity, all-composite CNG trailers in North America and is the only provider of CNG services using CNG-powered tractor-trucks.
Satsop Business Park is less than two hours southwest of Seattle and two hours north of Portland. The 1,800-acre mixed-use business and industrial park is also 30 minutes from Olympia, Wash. and is home to over 30 businesses on 600 acres of developed land.
Friday, December 13, 2013
Judge Approves Port of Grays Harbor Land Purchase
Superior Court Judge Gordon Godfrey on Dec. 9 approved the
sale of the manufacturing assets of former Satsop Business Park tenant NewWood
Corp. to the Port of Grays Harbor for $1.3 million.
The NewWood facility at the business park sits on a 19.67-acre
site with more than 290,000 square feet of warehouse space containing millions
of dollars in manufacturing equipment. The sale includes manufacturing
equipment located in a port-owned building, as well as intellectual property used
in the process of turning scrap plastics into building material.
New Wood Corp. has been in receivership since November 2012.
The sale required that all equipment be free of liens and that personal
property taxes owed to Grays Harbor County be paid from the proceeds of the
sale.
The Port of Grays Harbor Commission took action in November
to authorize the purchase with the intent to work with companies to find a viable
operator for the facility.
“We are committed to getting the facility up and running and
by purchasing these assets we are in a better position to control our own
destiny,” Grays Harbor Executive Director Gary Nelson said.
The Port of Grays Harbor is Washington’s only deep-water
port located directly on the Pacific Ocean. The recent addition of the Satsop
Business Park increased the port’s properties to more than 1,000 acres of
industrial properties and an additional 1,300 acres of sustainably managed
forestland.
Friday, November 8, 2013
Port of Grays Harbor to Buy Business Park Acreage
During a special Nov. 5 meeting, the Port of Grays Harbor
Commission granted Executive Director Gary Nelson, authority to execute a $1.3
million promissory note and enter into an agreement to purchase 19.67 acres of
land and assets from Pivotal Solutions.
The deal includes the assets of the facility, such as
intellectual property on the process of turning scrap plastics into usable
building material.
The facility is the centerpiece of the Satsop Business Park,
a mixed-use facility less than two hours southwest of Seattle and two hours
north of Portland. It is home to more than 30 businesses and 600 acres of
developed land and buildings.
“After analyzing the risk of the purchase of the assets
against the rewards should we succeed in finding a user for the site, my fellow
Commissioners and I felt the jobs and economic activity created, hedged against
the liquidation value of the equipment, mitigated any financial risk to the port,”
Port Commission President Chuck Caldwell explained.
At the same time the promissory note was approved, the
Commission also granted the port’s executive director authority to sign a
Letter of Intent with NewWood International, LLC, which outlines the terms of a
lease and the potential purchase of the equipment and intellectual property.
NewWood International is an affiliate of Triventas, a private investment firm
based in Pittsburgh, which was presented to the Port Commission in June as a
potential operator of the facility.
“This approach is the quickest and best way to get the
facility up and running, and creating jobs for the region,” commented Gary
Nelson, Executive Director. “We are hopeful Triventas will be a good tenant for
the facility and bring it into production again in the shortest amount of time
possible. Their commitment to success will be a win for all parties.”
