The West Virginia Polymer Alliance Zone (PAZ) announced the first recipients of its new Economic Development Travel Grant Program, an initiative designed to strengthen regional business recruitment by supporting local economic development organizations within the PAZ...
One of the biggest retail operations on the planet, Amazon, opened a facility in Wood County in late 2025. Amazon Services LLC purchased property from the Polymer Alliance Zone off Meadville Road in Davisville for $2.96 million in December 2024. An approximately...
Pipeline infrastructure will support regional economic development opportunities and expand access to natural gas for local families and businesses Source: Hope Gas Morgantown, WV, March 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Governor Patrick Morrisey today joined the team...
Pat Ford has joined the Polymer Alliance Zone joined as Vice President. Ford brings more than three decades of business development and external affairs experience in the private and public sectors to the role. “I am grateful to Keith Burdette and the PAZ Board...
Headquartered in Wood County, the Polymer Alliance Zone works to recruit businesses domestically and internationally to West Virginia along the Ohio River. “We’re the largest regional economic development group in the state of West Virginia,” said Keith Burdette,...
MARIETTA — Shale Crescent USA, a non-profit group of business and community leaders from Ohio and West Virginia, attended the World Petrochemical Conference March 20 in Houston to promote the Mid-Ohio Valley and the Shale Crescent for high-energy manufacturing...
Davisville, West Virginia – Keith Burdette has been named President and Chief Executive Officerof the Polymer Alliance Zone, Inc. (PAZ) – a five county, public-private partnership of the plastics industry, education and government that works to create new jobs and...