Tag: distribution center

Part I–An Era Comes to an End Once upon a time in the early 1950s, Westinghouse Electric decided to put a vacuum tube manufacturing plant on the outskirts of Bath.  By the early 1980s, Philips North America decided to buy the facility–and the concentration had long ago moved from tubes to specialty lighting applications. When they ABANDONED the site and…

Since the announcement earlier this year that Amazon was planning to locate a new distribution center in the old Mercury Aircraft building, this writer has taken a great interest in following the development–and the possibilities that this could mean for our community.  Imagine my puzzlement when one month turned into another, then another, and nothing seemed to happen.  It seemed…