Bert Robins, vice president, said there’s potential for several support businesses to locate near SeaCast in the Tax Increment Financing Industrial District, located about 10 miles west of Butte. In a TIFID, a portion of property taxes is diverted into a special account for economic development. The TIFID is adjacent to the Port of Montana, southwest of Butte.
Auxiliary operations could include a machine shop or different metals and raw materials suppliers.
By Holly Michels, of The Montana Standard
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SeaCast sponsors folk crafts
The First People’s Marketplace, a venue for American Indian artists and craftspeople during the Butte National Folk Festival next July, received a $25,000 sponsorship from SeaCast.
“This is just fabulous, and ensure that (the marketplace) is going to happen,” George Everett, executive director of Mainstreet Uptown Butte, said Monday.
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