The online customer support company is complaining that the mill would be too noisy, too dirty and out of place. "We have worked with the (public development authority) for a couple of years now to develop a technology business park--an environment that would benefit us and our people and attract like-minded businesses," says Sue Cummings, director of marketing communications for SafeHarbor.com. "No one is opposing jobs, but our businesses are very different and we shouldn't be placed together."

The proposed mill would be housed in a 250,000-sf facility created from four warehouses left over from a unfinished nuclear power plant. The facility would employ up to 120 people churning out 100 million sf of composite annually.

Boise Cascade spokesman Doug Bartels says his company is still negotiating a lease and waiting on environmental permits, which he doesn't expect trouble obtaining. He also says his company is planning to take several hundred thousand dollars in additional steps to dampen noise and screen the mill in response to SafeHarbor's concerns.