West Virginia Economic Development: WV’s Regional Economic Development Partnership

Success

Why Wheeling

What is going on here? International law firm, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe’s Global Operations Center in the center of downtown. British outsourcing firm Williams Lea’s new downtown office center. Cabela’s retail and adjacent regional distribution center at The Highlands in Ohio County. CertainTeed, a new plant in Marshall County. New and expanding factories in Wetzel County. A FedEx distribution center in the Wheeling MSA. A new AT&T call center. A national technology transfer center – industry, banking, technology, shared services, back office operations, outsourcing. These new business ventures — and many others — are proving that RED and the Wheeling MSA is increasingly successful in expanding its local economy by attracting outside businesses to locate here.