Business news from Chesterfield County
About 40 veterans, residents and officials gathered outside the Chesterfield County courthouse for a ceremony dedicating the County’s new veterans park on June 15.
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Rare earth element recycling company Cyclic Materials hosted a town hall at McBee High School on June 4. The Toronto-based company had announced in January it would invest $82.6 million and add 91 jobs in a facility in McBee. The company invited the public to attend the event, where it explained what it does and shared information about the project’s construction timetable, hiring and environmental precautions. Cylic also opened the town hall up to questions from residents.
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Chesterfield County Council at its June meeting voted to pass the first reading of an ordinance authorizing the sale of a 6,000-square-foot property to Chesterfield County Rural Water Co. for $17,000.
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The town of Chesterfield plans to establish a farmers market downtown, according to Administrator Cecil Kimrey, who said in a phone interview, “We’re in the initial stages. We haven’t finalized the site.”
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Chesterfield County closed on its sale of 22.93 acres to Walmart Inc. for $1.5 million in one of the largest per-acre lands deals for the County, according to one official.
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Construction on a new veterans park at the Chesterfield County judicial center began on March 9 and is expected to wind up in two to four weeks, according to the project’s de facto organizer.
Canadian rare earth element recycling firm Cyclic Materials will invest more than $82 million to build a plant in McBee the SC Department of Commerce said in a statement today.
Chesterfield County Council voted 9-0 at its meeting Wednesday to authorize select road closures for the 2026 Sandblast Rally.
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