HAGERSTOWN - The international satellite communications company that may become the first client at Allegheny Energy's Friendship Technology Park would bring 50 new jobs to Washington County, Senior Planner Tim Lung said Monday night.
The Washington County Planning Commission unanimously approved the site plan for the project submitted by Mountainside Teleport Corp., a subsidiary of Intelsat Global Service Corp. in Washington D.C.
Intelsat Global Service is a subsidiary of Intelsat Limited, which is headquartered in Bermuda.
Lung said the site on 40.3 acres would contain a system of four satellite dishes that are 27-feet in diameter and eight dishes that are 54-feet in diameter. A 257-foot-by-154-foot facility would house a data center and a back-up energy plant. Six 30-foot-by-10-foot concrete equipment shelters would be built.