Western Pennsylvania Snags New Westinghouse Facility

From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

Western Pennsylvania will get a Westinghouse Electric Corp. expansion that will bring 1,000 to 2,000 new high-paying jobs to the region, the only question being whether the new facility will be built in Monroeville or Cranberry.

Sources familiar with the situation said the nuclear energy company's board met Monday night and selected its home region over Charlotte, N.C., which also had been vying for a new engineering campus Westinghouse says it needs to accommodate expected growth in the nuclear plant business.

Monroeville-based Westinghouse, which already employs about 3,000 in the region and 9,000 worldwide, has been in an expansion mode in recent years amid a revival of nuclear power's prospects and resignations of older staffers. It hired 800 people last year, will hire 900 more this year and expects to hire a minimum of 500 new workers in succeeding years.

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