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Warren's Packard-Delphi Complex Could be in Play Again

Enzo Cantalamessa, Warren's safety-service director says Alan has the financial backing and the needed jobs and environmental deals with the state.
TIM RUDELL
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Enzo Cantalamessa, Warren's safety-service director says Alan has the financial backing and the needed jobs and environmental deals with the state.

A recent bankruptcy court ruling could clear the way for the sale of the Packard-Delphi industrial site in Warren. 

Former Warren native Christopher Alan owns AutoParkit. The international automated garage company is expanding and he wants its manufacturing to be at the old Packard site. But, he’s been unable to buy it from the local owner. Now, that owner is out of the picture. Following a bankruptcy filing a trustee is in control of selling the property.  

Enzo Cantalamessa, Warren's safety-service director says Alan has the financial backing and the needed jobs and environmental deals with the state.
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Enzo Cantalamessa, Warren's safety-service director says Alan has the financial backing and the needed jobs and environmental deals with the state.

Warren Safety-Service Director Enzo Cantalamessa says he and other economic development planners are optimistic Alan will be able to close the deal because he has the finances.

“He’s also the only one that has obtained the commitment of Jobs Ohio and Ohio EPA to work with him on the clean up of the property.”

The site is believed to be contaminated from decades of industrial operations.

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Tim Rudell
Tim Rudell has worked in broadcasting and news since his student days at Kent State in the late 1960s and early 1970s (when he earned extra money as a stringer for UPI). He began full time in radio news in 1972 in his home town of Canton, OH.