Industrial District Plan Moving Forward

FOWLERVILLE, MI-Village officials have approved a land designation that will allow American Compounding Specialties to build a 20,000-sf facility on vacant land. The approval of an “industrial district” is the first step toward making the contaminated site that once housed the Stanley Tools factory in the center of the village productive again.

The designation will allow ACS to proceed with plans to construct up to a 20,000-sf facility on the site at Franks Street and Veterans Drive for the production of thermoplastic pellets for manufacturing plants. The 11-acre site of the former tool factory, which was torn down more than a decade ago, has undergone a $7-million federally supervised environmental cleanup of toxic chemicals, including trichloroethylene (TCE) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).