CULLODEN, W.Va. — The Putnam County Development Authority (PCDA) is continuing to expand economic opportunities in the region– this time through the purchase of an 84,000 square foot industrial warehouse.

PCDA recently announced the purchase of the industrial property. It’s located at 2301 Virginia Avenue in Culloden.

The West Virginia Economic Development Authority and Putnam County Bank assisted PCDA with the acquisition of this property by collaborating their funding resources.

Putnam Development Authority Executive Director Morganne Tenney said this purchase demonstrates a strong public-private support system for economic development in Putnam County and in West Virginia.

“This has been many months in the making and we are just so excited we’re going to have property available for industry, it’s going to be prime for any type of distribution or logistics,” Tenney said recently on 580 Live with Dave Allen.

She said anyone who manufactures or distributes goods would be the ideal tenant.

Tenney said it’s located just a stone’s throw away from half the U.S. population.

She said not only is it ideally located near the I-77/I-79 interchange, but it has direct access to I-64, and is just a four hour drive from major population hubs such as Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio, Louisville, Kentucky, Charlotte, North Carolina, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Tenney said the area is rapidly growing and is on course to grow even more with the I-64 and Culloden interchange that’s currently under construction and is set to be complete in fall 2026.

“This building is right in front of that exit, so our board of directors felt it was a really good move for PCDA to purchase it,” Tenney said. “You know, it’s great to tell businesses about why they should come to West Virginia, and why they should come to Putnam County, but if you don’t have anywhere to put them, you’re kind of a salesman without any product to sell.”

Tenney said Putnam County, and West Virginia as a whole, has for a longtime struggled with the lack of having readily available real-estate with adequate utilities, flat acreage, and transportation accessibility.

For a longtime, she said there has been a need for more residential real-estate in the area as well, but with the growth of new businesses such as Nuccor Steel in nearby Mason County, their mission to bring in more housing has been pushed into overdrive as more housing development makes its way in.

Tenney said she is proud to see how proactive her and her team at PCDA has been toward alleviating the housing shortage and creating more opportunities for economic development in Putnam County.

“We want to see holistic development in Putnam County,” Tenney said. “We have over a thousand units being built over the next three years in Putnam County for housing, we’re working on workforce development through starting an apprenticeship program, we have this Hometown Advantage campaign talking about skilled-trades in West Virginia, but we’re also working on site development like purchasing this property.”

Tenney said one of their overall goals is to increase the tax base and create more jobs.

She said, however, that as they approach the attempt to increase the tax base, they are also keeping the number of senior citizens and veterans in the community in mind.

Tenney said by putting more into private investment, this helps limit the tax burden on the aging population that’s already in Putnam County,

“You know, that’s one of the reasons why we want to own this building, we want to lease the building, we want to make sure that we’re supporting the business community, but that we’re also supporting the residents of Putnam County as well,” she said.

Tenney said they have been reaching out to distribution industries and site consultants who could potentially lease the warehouse and so far, they have garnered a lot of interest.

She said the building was already previously being utilized as a distribution facility being formerly owned by U.S. Foods and then prior to that, Continental Can Company. Tenney said it comes complete with 12 dock doors and has more than enough space for laydown.

She said it could start being used again by a new tenant as early as tomorrow.

“The distribution space is turnkey, somebody could move their goods in tomorrow, its office space is going to be built out according to what the tenant is wanting, but the distribution space is ready to go,” Tenney said.

She said organizations interested in leasing the warehouse are encouraged to contact the Putnam County Development Authority directly for more information and a tour of the building.

You can call Morganne Tenney at (304)-757-0318 for leasing inquiries or additional information regarding the warehouse.

Clemson, SC – West Virginia will take on Clemson in game four of the Clemson Regional Saturday evening at 6:00 p.m. EST with the action broadcasting on the ACC Network.

The Mountaineers (42-14) walked off the Kentucky Wildcats in the regional opener. Sophomore Armani Guzman WVU at the plate, going 2-3 with the game-winning sacrifice RBI. Senior Brodie Kresser represented the winning run after driving a leadoff double down the left field line.

West Virginia senior pitcher Griffin Kirn completed his fourth consecutive quality start and notched his fifth win of the season after tossing 7.1 innings and recorded seven strikeouts on the afternoon.

West Virginia senior Kyle West leads the team with a .353 batting average with a team-high 10 home runs.

Senior Jace Rinehart is hitting .317, ranking third on the team, and holds team-bests 20 doubles and 50 RBI.

West Virginia will turn to senior Jake Kartsonas. He began the season in the bullpen and pitched his way into the weekend rotation after recovering from offseason surgery. The right-hander made all seven starts in the final seven weeks of the season. He currently holds a team-best 2.90 ERA.

Clemson advanced to the winner’s bracket after handling USC Upstate in the night cap of the opening day of the regional.

The Tigers (45-16) trailed by two before leader Cam Cannarella ripped a two-RBI double in the fifth and sophomore Collin Priest followed with and a sacrifice RBI line drive to centerfield for the go-ahead run.

Cannarella put the final touches on the win with a two-run home run in the eighth in the eighth to extend the Clemson to lead to four, 7-3.

The junior leads the team with a .345 batting average and a Clemson-leading 49 RBI, while junior Jacob Jarrell has clubbed a team-high 15 home runs.

Sophomore Aidan Knaak will take the mound for the Tigers. The sophomore is 9-1 on the season with all 15 of his appearances coming in starts.  He owns a 4.06 ERA with 106 strikeouts in 84.1 innings. In his last four starts, he’s tossed 24.1 innings and has put up a 2.24 ERA and 30 strikeouts.

Clemson leads the all-time series 11-2.

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West Virginia put their recent late-game struggles to bed on Friday against Kentucky in the first game of the Clemson Regional.

The Mountaineers trailed 3-0 early on, before they tied the game in the sixth, and then ended up walking off the Wildcats on a sacrifice-fly from Armani Guzman, as WVU won 4-3.

Entering this weekend, the Mountaineers had gone 2-7 in their last nine games, with many of those losses coming on late-inning collapses. West Virginia reversed that fortune, as they didn’t allow a run after the fourth inning, and held on in the ninth, despite an error to start the inning.

“The last three weeks have been choppy. We had played okay baseball down the stretch, so to come into this environment on the biggest stage and possibly play our best game in the biggest moment and also get our first walk-off of the season on the road is really special. I think we have the most road wins in the country, and so it’s fitting for this team to come on the road and to be able to get their first walk-off,” West Virginia head coach Steve Sabins said.

Sabins changed around WVU’s lineup on Friday, with one of the moves being the change of Armani Guzman to start at third base. This was only his third start since April 4th, but he came up big for Sabins and company as he went 2-for-3 and had the game-winning at-bat.

The adversity WVU has gone through recently prepared them for this moment, Sabins said. WVU blew leads to Pitt and Kansas State on the road, before getting swept by Kansas in the final weekend of the season.

“They’ve been this way. They’ve been resilient. There’s certain moments throughout the season where you can see growth and and without some struggle or adversity, you don’t ever have that opportunity to see that, and so we’ve won very consistently for a really, really long time,” Sabins said.

The reason WVU isn’t a host this weekend is because of their late-season losses, but Sabins says those lessons learned helped his team learn the importance of winning, something that paid dividends on Friday.

“I think we were three-quarters of the way through the season, and we had the best winning percentage in the country, and so although that was wonderful and allowed us to play here today, it probably didn’t allow for a lot of growth throughout the season of battling back and me needing to be creative with some lineups and change some things and feel in the heat.

“Over the course of the last two or three weeks, I think we had been a little bit stale, and so I think that staleness resulted in a little bit of a fire in our guys and from me to try to make sure that we’re getting the right players in the right positions to be successful because ultimately, that’s my responsibility. So I think through those hard times, you have an opportunity to do something special, and so for these kids to show up here on this day and to have the walk-off win is certainly special for our program, and hopefully that’s kind of the next chapter of our season,” Sabins said.

West Virginia looks to have their magical moment propel them through the regional as they play in the 1-0 game on Saturday night.