Commerce Corridor Color Brochure (Requires Adobe Acrobat)

The Commerce Corridor (Corridor) area consists of downtown neighborhoods in both Ranson and adjacent Charles Town, arrayed along a north south road corridor in Ranson and a perpendicular east-west railroad corridor that straddles the Ranson/Charles Town border. This area revolves around Ranson's main downtown street corridor, Fairfax Boulevard, running from an abandoned chemical/fertilizer plant to the north, south through downtown residences, shopping areas and idled brownfield properties crossing over the municipal border with Charles Town. At this point, a CSX railroad line located two blocks north of Charles Town's main street (Washington Street) intersects with Fairfax Boulevard. The Corridor then extends approximately two (2) blocks east and six (6) blocks west along the railroad line through neighborhoods and brownfields in Charles Town.

There are at least 15 significant brownfield properties arrayed along this 1.5 mile corridor, such as:

• Kidde Brass Foundry, a 100+ year old contaminated foundry recently acquired by Ranson for redevelopment as a mixed-use downtown center under LEED-ND standards
• Miller Chemical/Fertilizer, a large abandoned facility in Ranson that was recently subject to West Virginia state-led cleanup and Voluntary Remediation Program (VRP) participation
• Maytag Spray Painting facility, an idled manufacturing facility in Ranson that has been redeveloped into the Ranson Civic Center
• Charles Town Public Works and Landfill, an operating but obsolete and contaminated public works facility located adjacent to Evitts Run Creek
• Viener Metal Salvage Yard, a former metal salvaging site currently under redevelopment as the American Public University's Academic Center, the largest privately-financed LEED building in the state
• Peoples Supply Granary, an idled granary and pesticide sales center located in Charles Town; and Supertane Coal Tar CERCLIS site, a former gas manufacturing site in Charles Town, subject to EPA emergency removal action, and undergoing further remedial investigation/action by the owner.