North of US-13
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| Street View, Jul 2012 |
South of US-13
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| Street View, Jul 2012 |
It took a while to tear it down.
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| Street View, Oct 2015 |
The Worth family started in the iron business in in Elkton, MD, and then in Coatesville, PA. "The operations in Coatesville produced high-grade steel plate for boilers, tanks, and ships, along with boiler tubes. Those facilities were sold to the Midvale Steel & Ordnance Company in 1915, and the Worth brothers eventually started a company to build a steel plant in Claymont, Delaware, on a site along the Delaware River directly on the Pennsylvania Railroad line from Philadelphia to Wilmington. They continued to make steel plate and pipe. The company was sold to the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company in 1951 and a variety of owners followed through the ensuing years." [hagley]
It went through three corporations between Colorado Fuel & Iron and Claymont. [wikimapia]
Evraz bought Claymont Steel for $564.8m in 2007. "Claymont Steel manufactures and sells custom discrete steel plate in North America." [GlobeNewsWire]
Most of the buildings were gone by Google Earth's May 2016 image. It was served by the Pennsy railroad.
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| Google Earth, Oct 2011 |
It was shut down in 2013, and 375 jobs were lost. [DelawareOnline]
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| Vik Sharma posted Evraz - Plate mill - Clayton, PA Michael Stilwell: Claymont, Delaware? Home of the "Claymonsters". |
This was the redevelopment plant for the 425-acre site in 2019. It included 1,207 residential units. I didn't bother to read the article because I didn't believe the plan. Residential units require a lot of site cleanup. This plan struck me as another example of "viewgraphs are cheap." If the plan talked about warehouses, then I could believe it. But the train station part of the plan did get built.
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| DelawareBusinessTimes, courtesy of the developer |
Sure enough. The developer sold the site in Jan 2023 to become a distribution center (i.e. warehouses). [DelawareBusinessNow]
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