LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas’ governor says a planned $3 billion steel mill in northeast Arkansas could help the state’s prospects for luring the auto industry to the state.
Governor Asa Hutchinson and state Commerce Secretary Mike Preston on Wednesday hailed the new U.S. Steel mill planned for Osceola as the largest economic development project in state history.
U.S. Steel announced Tuesday that it hopes to break ground on the Osceola site for the plant early this year.
The plant would employ at least 900 workers, and Hutchinson said the average wage for jobs at the new mill would be $100,000.
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