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2/28/2024
St. Louis Regional Freightway officials this week announced a 300-acre port district-zoned property along the Mississippi River in Herculaneum, Missouri, is available for intermodal development.
The site includes 2 miles of river frontage, a 200-acre buffer and access to Union Pacific Railroad and Interstate 55. Owned by the Doe Run Co., the site recently received the port district zoning, making way for its redevelopment as an intermodal transportation hub and industrial park, according to a St. Louis Regional Freightway press release.
Located on the shipping lanes of the Mississippi River, the site has been used since the 1700s as a port. With its easy access for barge loading and offloading and the site’s proximity to early lead mines in adjacent Washington County, under early French ownership the port was used to ship lead cannonballs and shot to Europe to support Napolean’s army. Today, the port ships frac sand, grain and other bulk commodities.
"Few inland port sites available for new development have the infrastructure and ease of access to both rail and highway of this site," said Mary Lamie, executive vice president of multimodal enterprises for Bi-State Development and head of the St. Louis Regional Freightway.
The site's 30,000 linear feet of track operated by UP and less than 2-mile distance to I-55 make it ideal for moving goods nationally and internationally, she said.
"It is a great addition to the existing pipeline of 16 available rail-served sites in the two-state area," said Lamie.