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Williams is committed to working with project contractors to encourage them to buy as many goods and services as possible from local businesses.
The company has launched the WillShop Local app to help connect our Atlantic Sunrise workers with local businesses and services - all from their mobile devices.
The company is launching WillShop Local, a digital application designed to connect local businesses with contractors and construction crews working in the project area. Local businesses and service providers will benefit from construction activities associated with the Atlantic Sunrise project, which will bring thousands of direct and indirect jobs to the state.
“By working together, we can have a significant positive impact on local communities and small businesses in the project area,” Williams public outreach manager Mike Atchie said. “Williams is excited to bring this opportunity for local businesses in the communities along the project areas to showcase their products and services to our workers.”
Connecting Contractors to Communities
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Project contractors will have many needs as construction commences - construction materials, supplies, food, lodging, fuel, cleaning services and more. The WillShop Local app will be an easy and convenient way to connect pipeline workers to local businesses who offer these materials and services, helping drive local economic activity along the project footprint.
Not only does this help the workers find what they need locally, it keeps their spending dollars local, injecting money into the local economy.
The design and construction of Atlantic Sunrise will support more than 8,000 jobs and an associated $870 million in economic value in project areas. WillShop Local will help to ensure businesses in local communities maximize the opportunities brought during project construction.
Types of businesses and services include:
· Housing, hotels and restaurants
· Construction materials, rental equipment and welding supplies
· Landscaping services, waste management and hauling services
· Security, fuel and transportation needs
· And many more
The WillShop Local app is an easy and convenient way to connect pipeline workers to local businesses that offer the materials and services these contractors will seek during construction, helping drive local economic activity along the project footprint.
Easy to sign up, easy to use
Workers can download the app from the Apple App Store and Android marketplace. When the WillShop app is opened on a mobile device, workers can then click on a category to explore and find a number of options to meet their business needs.
For local businesses, the app is an opportunity to maximize the economic impact on local communities where construction will take place.
Click the link here to sign up and get your business into the WillShop Local app.
Download the WillShop Local app fact sheet
ABOUT ATLANTIC SUNRISE
Needed Infrastructure
• Atlantic Sunrise is an expansion of Williams' existing Transco pipeline, which provides one-third of the natural gas consumed in Pennsylvania. • An estimated 25 to 30 percent of Marcellus Shale wells drilled to date do not have pipeline takeaway capacity. Atlantic Sunrise will help change that. • The Atlantic Sunrise expansion will alleviate infrastructure bottlenecks in Pennsylvania, connecting abundant Marcellus gas supplies with markets in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast.
Economic Benefits
• The nearly $3 billion expansion of the existing Transco natural gas pipeline is designed to increase deliveries by 1.7 billion cubic feet per day (enough to provide service to 7 million homes). • Penn State University researchers forecast the Atlantic Sunrise project to directly and indirectly support approximately 8,000 jobs in 10 Pennsylvania counties during the project's construction phase, resulting in an estimated $1.6 billion economic impact in the project area.
