WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1967 Spring Start on Plant Connecticut Firm 94 Acres A new industry with an estimated initial annual payroll up to $350,000 for 100 workers is locating i£ Belleville. The ciiy-hall announcement this mbTOapg elided eight months huish-husli negotiations with Superior Electric C o m p a n y of Bristol, Connecticut, precision motor manufacturer. The 'plant will be built In nwtheast Belle vile, where Superior yesterday closed a $155,000 land deal to purchase 94 acres. Work is expected to began in the Spring on construction of a 30,000-isqaare foot building -- whidh may see two additions within five years. The site, west of Canndiflton Road (highway 37), is bordered by the Maicdooald - Gartier Freeway oa the north, and on tih© souitSb'by Adiam Street. Confirmation of tfhe new industry was made by M a y o r Jack Elis a«nd Industrial Commission1 chairm/an J. C. (Pat) Houston, following completion of the land purchase from the city late yesterday. The mayor also revealed that ciiity couociO. last Mondtay moved secretly to buittai down the deal by aipprovinig in caucus of purchase of the site by the cityi. . Yesterday Superior deposited istis cheque for $155,000 to buy from t)he city aod toe transfer is now bedn-g made legal. The caution witth which t h e deal was closed reflected the atmosjphere tlhrwiglhouit aill the negotia'taons witfti Sojperior. . Mayor E'lMis neveailed the inianouverikiig to brimig the &ew ·»diuistry to Belevile began ats far back ats last June w h e n company olfieens visited t h e city with Ontario pepaofeienit of Economics amd Deiwedopmenit officiails. Ciity Iindui&tirialist Cornmisistiooer Emsit Kneiisiel put ouit the fest feellens wMioilt evem ksoow i n g the idemltity ol 1Jhe pirospeict. By July Superior had asgreed to tafce ao opitio«n on a site and ciity c'oaincil 'tbe,n quietily w a s brought iinto the pieture. Council decided to opition the land for Superior and the bloc was assembled irom two private owners and ci/ty-held property. Both (the mayor and Mr. Houston credited council with godoiig along with tile suggestions of the indiDS'triai commission throughout the trainsactioesi. "Council gave the commission exceptional co-operation," commented Mr. Houston. ' Commissioner K n e i s e 1 believes construction of the plant may begin in April -- the time the city has agreed to install water aod sewer services. Completion deadline for the services ·is December^ Mr. Houston, who gave - the initta! workers* payroll as a *'ix»jg(h. estimate" said the company wiM train fe pensoninel looaily. The commissioner estimated the initial work-force makeup would be 20 per cent skilled arid 30 percent semi-skilled, while less than half the total would be women employees. He could give no estimate h aw many Superior might eventually employ. they buy 94 acres you can imagine they have hopes of going pretty big," he added. * 'They're plamning on two additions in- the next five years. This isn't, conjecture. We've seen the rough layouts of the three-phases (of eons'tnietion)." Superior, with a -sales organization and ware house already in Toronto and located overseas in Holland, manufactures a wide-range of automated, precision production machines. Its motors control the fins of the Teilstar communication's satellite. "Superior bears out our idea of the kind of industry we waul in Belleville, -- a high 4ualityt prestige industry," said Mr. Houston. OHIttIO