The online customer support company is complaining that the millwould be too noisy, too dirty and out of place. "We have workedwith the (public development authority) for a couple of years nowto develop a technology business park--an environment that wouldbenefit us and our people and attract like-minded businesses," saysSue Cummings, director of marketing communications forSafeHarbor.com. "No one is opposing jobs, but our businesses arevery different and we shouldn't be placed together."

The proposed mill would be housed in a 250,000-sf facilitycreated from four warehouses left over from a unfinished nuclearpower plant. The facility would employ up to 120 people churningout 100 million sf of composite annually.

Boise Cascade spokesman Doug Bartels says his company is stillnegotiating a lease and waiting on environmental permits, which hedoesn't expect trouble obtaining. He also says his company isplanning to take several hundred thousand dollars in additionalsteps to dampen noise and screen the mill in response toSafeHarbor's concerns.

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