Business View City & Municipal | August 2022

71 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 7 CHESTER COUNTY , SOUTH CAROL INA attracted the attention of E&J Gallo Winery. The California-based wine and spirit manufacturer chose Chester County as the site of its east coast facility. The state-of-the-art, $423-million production facility and distribution center is set to open its first phase in October. The company will use its Chester County site to provide bottling and canning capacity, as well as warehousing and distribution of its wine and spirits. It will also be a hub for the company’s import and export business. “The Gallo project is about as close to a recession-proof industry as you can get,” Long states. “No matter what is going on in the Together, these assets, combined with the area’s available space, make Chester County ripe for opportunity when it comes to businesses looking for a new place to plant their roots. “If you need a large site, you need gas, or you need rail, or any combination of those three, you should be looking at Chester County,” Long says. “I think that fairly simple message is starting to resonate. We are getting calls from project managers and we have yet to say “no” to any of those folks. We haven’t found a gas load we’ve not been able to meet and that is a true asset to us as a community.” The county’s plentiful business opportunities