# Big River Steel selects Brownsville, Texas for $1.6B steel plant

Big River Steel LLC selected the Port of Brownsville as the site for a $1.6 billion steel plant modeled after its Osceola, Arkansas facility, expected to support 500 jobs.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2018-04-24
- Where: Brownsville, Texas, United States
- Value: $1.60B
- Jobs: 500
- Status: announced
- Products: steel
- Sectors: [Steel and Metal Products](https://endata.com/sectors/steel-metal-products.md)

## Companies

- [Big River Steel](https://endata.com/companies/31552.md)

## Sources

- [myrgv.com](https://myrgv.com/uncategorized/2018/04/25/steel-company-selects-valley-site/), 2018-04-25: "They want to be here. They’ve made the decision. We have an agreement in hand that says Brownsville’s the place where we’re going to make it happen."

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