Unique Heavy Infrastructure Site Available
Former Alcoa Aluminum Smelter - Badin, North Carolina
• Main site 130 acres (50 acres shovel
ready)
• Additional 320 acres available
• Approximately 535,000 s.f. of buildings
• 20 ton cranes
• 40 miles east of Charlotte
• Dual rail served
• Air attainment status
Site Specifics
• Electricity:
• Retail service provided by Duke Energy
• Multiple 100kva transmission lines onsite
• Treated Water: Up to 1 million gpd available
from Stanly County; additional 6 million gpd
excess capacity from City of Albemarle
• Sewer: 300,000 gpd available from Stanly
County; additional 7 million gpd excess
capacity from the City of Albemarle
• Rail: Connections to CSX and Norfolk
Southern
• Natural Gas: 6” high pressure line onsite
• Known Fiber:
• Windstream adjacent
• TWC adjacent
• City of Albemarle and AT&T in county
• Zoning: Heavy Industrial
For more information contact:
Monica T. Brower
Alcoa Inc. – Sr. Brownfield Redevelopment Mgr.
Monica.Brower@Alcoa.com
Phone: (412) 553-8208
Robin Spinks
Greenfield Development
greenfielddev@earthlink.net
Phone: (910) 509-1805
Unique Heavy Infrastructure Site Available
Former Alcoa Aluminum Smelter - Badin, North Carolina
Infrastructure Details
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49a
Electricity
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73a
73a
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Natural Gas
33a
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130a
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Served by Piedmont Natural Gas
6” high pressure transmission line to site
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Alcoa track connects to WSS and NS
WSS connects to NS, CSX, HPTD, NCRR
Multiple siding tracks on site
Rail
Treated Water
90a
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Main site 130 acres (50 shovel ready)
o Additional 5 parcels with 318 ac
Approximately 535,000 sf of buildings
o 4 buildings 1250’ x 62’ each
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Ceilings 33’ center, 26’
under crane
o 20 ton cranes
o Shop, warehouse
Zoned for heavy industry
Air attainment status
Waste history - all issues identified and being
managed with NC DENR
Stanly County Airport 4 miles
o 5500’ L, ILS (VUJ)
Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT)
1 hour
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Served by Stanly County
12” and 16” lines to site
County purchases from City of Albemarle
System capacity – County 3 mgd, City 16 mgd
Excess capacity – County 1 mgd, City 6 mgd
Additional 2 mgd permitted by City
Additional raw water withdrawal allowed from Yadkin
River under certain conditions
Waste Water
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Retail service by Duke Energy
Multiple 100 kVa transmission lines on site
Over 200 MW formerly used on site
Served by Stanly County via Badin secondary treatment
plant
10” line to site
System permitted capacity .55 mgd
Current excess capacity .2 mgd
Additional capacity available by connecting to City of
Albemarle
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7 mgd excess capacity
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11 mgd with minor upgrades
Known Fiber
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Windstream adjacent
TWC adjacent
City of Albemarle and AT&T in county
For more information contact:
Monica T. Brower
Alcoa, Inc. - Sr Brownfield Redevelopment Mgr
Monica.brower@alcoa.com
Phone: (412) 553-8208
Robin H. Spinks
Greenfield
greenfielddev@earthlink.net
Phone: (910) 509-1805
49ac
73ac
73ac
33ac
130ac
(50vacant)
90ac
Alcoa Badin Works, Badin, NC
Stanly County
Alcoa Badin Site
Telecom Focus Site
The Alcoa Badin Site – Located at multiple parcels, in Badin, NC, this site- at its closest, is less than 1/4
of a mile from the serving Central Office at 68 Pine Street, in Badin. The NPA NXX is (704) 422.
Telecom Infrastructure Near Site
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Windstream is the ILEC for the site. Windstream has aerial fiber
optic cable along the borders of several site parcels. This fiber
runs along NC 740 HWY through Badin. Windstream also has its
serving Central Office in Badin as illustrated by the yellow circle
in the photo above.
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Time Warner Cable is the cable television provider for the area.
Time Warner has aerial coaxial and fiber at many of the parcels.
This fiber runs through the residential area between the parcels
and then along the highway. Time Warner also has a hub site
along NC 740 HWY at Short Street.
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The City of Albemarle has a fiber optic network. Albemarle‘s
closest fiber to this site is approximately 3-1/4 miles away along
Lee Lynn Road in Albemarle.
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AT&T provides service in the far western portion of Stanly County. AT&T could provide services to
this site as a CLEC. AT&T’s closest fiber is just more than 17-1/2 miles away in Red Cross.
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There is one cell site, very near the parcels of this site. It is an SBA Towers, Inc. owned tower. The
tower is being fed by Windstream copper cable and Time Warner fiber. Verizon Wireless and AT&T
Mobility are the wireless service providers.
Stanly County
Alcoa Badin Site
Telecom Focus Site
Fiber Availability/Services at Site – TWC and Windstream
have fiber infrastructure and can provide ready access to high
bandwidth services. Approximate distance of nearby fiber
infrastructure by owners is illustrated in the chart to the right.
Diversified fiber facilities can be available from a few
sources, with a couple of them being at the site and additional providers with build distances that may be substantial.
Time Warner Cable At/Near most parcels
Windstream
At/Near most parcels
City of Albemarle
3-1/4 miles
AT&T
~17-1/2 miles
Fiber Redundancy and Diversity – Time Warner Cable can provide redundancy to their coax and fiber
services. TWC can provide Layer 2 service. Layer 2 service being one that does not provide Internet connectivity, but acts more like a secure private network, giving network administrators control over their
WAN. With the TWC hub site just south of the parcels a diverse ring, possibly only collapsed as it leaves
the hub would be a possibility. TWC can also provide diversification from separate nodes and/or hubs to
the site and then the ring would not be collapsed in any location.
Windstream can provide redundancy to their services, with little to no build to their outside plant infrastructure– depending on the parcel. The possibility for diversification of this redundancy with Windstream
services is very high. Because of the Central Office being located so closely to the site, diverse routes to
and from the site could be achieved with a minimal outside plant infrastructure build. This would simply
be constructing two (2) fiber routes, each along different streets from the Central Office to the site. This
scenario could be installed where the ring is not collapsed in any location. Additional diversification may
also be obtainable if Windstream fiber in the area is IOF (InterOffice Fiber). If the fiber has service/signal
that originates from separate Central Offices, then a more separate and secure level of diversification can
be achieved, just with this one provider. Utilizing services from both Windstream and Time Warner Cable
would provide even more diversification to the fiber feeding the site.
Although AT&T is a considerable distance from the site, there is a possibility they may consider a fiber
build to this site. AT&T has been open to meeting with data centers and other large bandwidth users to
have discussions regarding long outside plant builds. Adding AT&T to the possible providers increase the
opportunity for redundancy and diversity.
Competitive Services
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Time Warner Cable can provide the following services via its fiber connection; Fiber ServicesDedicated Internet 3Mbps to 10Gig+, Metro Ethernet, Voice PRI Services (23b+1d), Layer 2
Private Network services. TWC’s core networks are designed utilizing either SONET and/or
Ethernet technology. Customers looking for diverse fiber paths built into their facility will be
determined on a case by case basis.
This map product was prepared from the Stanly County, NC Geographic Information System,
Stanly County has made substantial efforts to ensure the accuracy of location and labeling of
information contained on this map. Stanly County promotes and recommends the independent verification of any data contained on this map product by the user. The County of Stanly,
its employees and agents disclaim, and shall not be held liable for any and all damages, loss
of liability, whether direct, indirect or consequential which arises or may arise from this map
product or the use thereof by any person or entity.
RAIL SERVICE:
Alcoa Line
Winston-Salem
Southbound Railway
(WSS)
Norfolk Southern (NS)
CSX Transportation
(CSX)