Business View Magazine | December 2020

363 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2020 service events each month. The Mount Olive Economic Development Committee also works on developing an economical and business- friendly environment that facilitates job creation and retention. Our proximity to New York City and its ports, airports, rail services, and trucking makes it an ideal location, as a regional center for healthcare, retail, education, and manufacturing. Home to the Foreign Trade Zone, large corporations including Givaudan, Robertet, Seiko, UPS and FedEx are among its tenants. Mount Olive is also proud to be the regional manufacturing and research center for Siemens Healthineers and Benjamin Moore Paint Products. Sustainability & Environment A major solar development has been recently approved for Mount Olive, called the Combe Fill North Landfill Solar Project. The site is a former landfill which comprised 65 acres of the 103-acre property. It was first operated as a municipal landfill in 1966, then by Morris County Landfill Inc. from 1969 – 1978 and sold to Combe Fill Corporation (CFC) in 1978. CFC operated the landfill until January 1981, when operation ceased and it turned into a Superfund Site being remediated by the NJDEP in 1991. The site has been monitored by the USEPA and NJDEP since being capped. A recent strategy change has allowed the property to be re- assigned to a new owner, Mt. Olive Solar Field, LLC. The Township initiated a Redevelopment Study which resulted in an overlay zone to accommodate the development of a solar field. The new owner is proposing a solar array farm MOUNT OL I VE TOWNSHI P , NEW JERSEY