Concrete-supplier Fred Hill Materials, a three-generation company, shut down all operations for good Monday, laying off 42 employees…. The company owns concrete plants in Poulsbo, Bremerton, Port Townsend and Sequim and operated a gravel pit near Shine until it was sold to Miles Sand & Gravel in 2009.
Alex Hill said at the time that the sale was designed to help the company weather the slump in construction….
The pit-to-pier project remains an active proposal under a spinoff company called Thorndyke Resource with Alex Hill at the helm. As planned, the project would move sand and gravel by conveyor belt from a massive pit near Shine to a 1,000-foot-long pier on Hood Canal. Environmental studies are under way for the project, which must be approved by the Jefferson County hearing examiner. Chris Dunagan at theKitsap Sun reports.
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2012/apr/23/fred-hill-materials-closes-after-66-years/
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