Work continues to progress to convert a facility for the Greene County Secondary Roads Department into a regular shop area for one of the neighboring communities.

Greene County Engineer Wade Weiss says they have been using a temporary location in Scranton as a cold storage facility, after having to relocate equipment and other items from the former National Guard Armory building when it was sold to the Greene County School District to house its buses and other transportation vehicles. He talks about some of the improvements that the facility is undergoing to convert it to a shop space from a cold storage building.

“Well, we’re going to be utilizing the building for some office space in the interior, I mean we designed it originally for that. We’re moving our fuel system there, we’re going to be moving our salt and sand storage up there, actually making it a little bit bigger (for) salt and sand storage over there to give us a little more product. We have a number of trucks that can economically it’s better for them just to load out there than to come back to Jefferson on their routes.” 

   

Weiss says other improvements are extending water and sewer services, as well as installing more electrical and heating systems. The new cold storage facility is the former Alliant Energy building on Mulberry Street, north of Jefferson. Weiss is hoping to have the new Scranton shop renovations completed by this spring and all equipment to be moved by this summer. He adds, the county plans to continue to own the current property where the current shop is located, but demolish the structure.