Talon, Inc - Plant 7 Meadville, Pennsylvania The Road to Reuse ~~~ Talon Inc. (Talon) operated their Plant 7 at the 1305 South Main Street facility in Meadville, PA since 1910, when the company began manufacturing boilers at the 13 acre site. In 1932, Talon started manufacturing zippers at the facility, making Meadville the "Zipper Capital." The zipper manufacturing process included metal fabrication and metal finishing operations. Additionally, Talon operated a waste treatment plant, waste disposal lagoon, and drum storage areas on the property. After Talon ceased operations in the early 1990s, Coats American, Talon's successor at the property, cleaned up the waste water treatment area, treatment plant, and the lagoons to meet PADEP requirements. Upon completion of activities, the property was purchased by the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Meadville. In 2001, the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Meadville began site investigations and worked Approximate total acres and current use Approximate Acres in Reuse: 13 Current Use: Planned corporate campus and headquarters with PADEP to complete remediation efforts. While the PADEP continues to investigate groundwater contamination offsite, the former Talon Plant 7 is safe for current and future non residential use. In May 2008, Vantage Holding Co. LLC purchased the 13- acre property for $250,000 to be the location of their consolidated corporate campus and headquarters. The purchase included the 66,000-square foot former Talon building on site. In 2008, the Pennsylvania Governor provided Vantage and the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Meadville with a $1.5 million Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP) grant to assist with the renovations and redevelopment of the former industrial site. Vantage, a for-profit company owned by 13 non-profit community hospitals, will work to renovate the facility to move more than 200 of their employees to the former Talon Plant 7 site in August 2009. The company is planning a ribbon cutting ceremony on September 17, 2009 and has invited the Pennsylvania Governor to attend. "We could have bought a completely developed site in Erie for half the money - but we wanted to stay and keep everything here. It's a lot of work, but it is worth it. It will do wonders for the community". - Tom Surman, Vantage. M, www.epa.aov/rea3wcmd/cnrrectiveaction.htm For More Information EPA Region 3 Contact: Hon Lee, ------- |