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Demolition is Underway for a Mason County Power Plant

The Frontier Group of Companies has started demolition of a former American Electric Power plant in Mason County ahead of developments by the Nucor Corporation. A boiler at the retired Philip Sporn Power Plant was safely dropped Saturday morning and the remainder of the demolition project should be finished by the end of this year, according to a news release from the Frontier Group of Companies. The Sporn Power Plant closed in 2015 and was purchased by FGC in 2019 and has been named the New Haven Industrial Park.The site is located near the future home of the Nucor steel mill and has the utilities and infrastructure needed to attract industrial developers. The Nucor Corporation recently announced plans to build a steel mill in Mason County at the cost of roughly 2.7 billion.

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