Industrial Boomtowns Rise In Unlikely Places As Labor Shortages Shift Site Selection


Industrial Boomtowns Rise In Unlikely Places As Labor Shortages Shift Site Selection


Rail has always been the economic backbone of Dillon. Throughout the 20th century, trains shipped tobacco and cotton from this South Carolina town to processing plants up and down arteries on the Eastern Seaboard. By the 1990s, the tobacco industry was in sharp decline, and the trains to and from Dillon slowed to a crawl.

Nearly 30 years later, trains are active once more, hauling cargo containers 160 miles from Charleston — one of the South’s busiest ports — into a new $50M distribution hub called Inland Port Dillon....

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RSK: So right on...being in Door County last week you cannot believe all the help wanted signs everywhere for every type of job.

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