Big River Steel repays loan from State of Arkansas 17 years early
(Local News ~ 09/28/17)
OSCEOLA — Big River Steel presented Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson with full repayment of its $50 million loan – 17 years ahead of schedule – that was part of the state’s economic development efforts. That funding package helped attract Big River in 2014 to build the company’s $1.2 billion scrap metal recycling and flat-rolled steel production facility on a 1,100-acre site adjacent to the Mississippi River...