U.S. Steel’s $70 million investment in its Fairfield Works is just an indication of what the steelmaker plans to bring to Alabama, specifically to western Jefferson County.
“We’re looking at a potential of up to $500 million of investment somewhere in Alabama, but we would like to put it at Fairfield,” said Paul Vercher, the senior director of state government affairs of U.S. Steel. “It just needs to be somewhere along our logistical chain. But we would like to put it in Fairfield.”
Vercher was in the Jefferson County Commission chambers Thursday, as he was for the commission’s committee meeting on Tuesday, as it approved an abatement of non-education sales and use taxes during construction of a seamless tubular threading facility and a 10-year abatement of non-education property taxes. The measure passed 4-0 with Lashunda Scales abstaining.
The District 1 commissioner said she is fully supportive of the project, but she didn’t vote to avoid a possible conflict of interest, as her husband works for the company…