There?s nothing trashy about Waste Management?snew location.
Relocating from their current facility in Elkridge, Waste Management of Maryland Inc. will make its new home in the Fairfield Ecological Park in Baltimore City. The new site will be developed for an estimated $6 million to meet the growing needs of Waste Management.
“We looked for about a year and a half for the right location regarding size and zoning, and this is the best location we came up with,” said Lisa Kardell, director of public affairs for Waste Management?s Virginia and Maryland region.
Located in South Baltimore, the new site will house a 24,000-square-foot building. Inside, a fleet of about 100 trash trucks will be housed, dispatched and maintained. While no trash will be returned to or dumped at the facility, the trucks will serve as daily route vehicles that will come and go.
“Their offices will be based there and they will be parking trucks there and going onto their usual business,” said Larisa Salamacha, director of industrial development for the Baltimore Development Corporation.
The property is just shy of 21.4 acres, and the Chesapeake Real Estate Group purchased it in November of 2005. Waste Management plans on using about 11 acres of the property, more than twice the size of the four-acre parcel that the company had in Elkridge.
Ten-plus acres left over after the development will be available for Chesapeake to use as they choose.
The Fairfield Ecological Park houses 60 other businesses and 1,800 workers. The Baltimore Development Corporation also plans to provide Fairfield with $15 million in infrastructure and street improvements over the next five years.
“Our concept originally had been to recycle waste products,” Salamacha said. “Right now we are concentrating on a sustainable development and safe and clean practices by business in the area.”
