WARREN — Trumbull County commissioners are expected to have a public hearing and then vote today on whether to support a 10-year, 60% tax abatement for the building of a Kimberly-Clark facility on Pine Avenue, which straddles Warren and Howland townships.

The up to $875 million project will include the building of a 1,157,261-square-foot facility that will include warehouse and office space for the manufacturing of various consumer hygiene paper products.

Approximately 75% of the facility will be in Howland and 25% will be in Warren Township on the former RG Steel plant site.

Included in the investment are $250,000 in the acquisition of property, $400 million in additions / new development, $448 million in machinery and new equipment, $2,750,000 in furniture and fixtures, and $24 million in inventory.

The project is projected to begin in May 2025 and be completed in December 2030.

Kimberly-Clark is a Fortune 500 paper products producer based in Texas.

Once completed, the project is expected to have 491 new full-time permanent jobs. It will have 60 new full-time jobs in the first year, 180 new full-time permanent jobs in the second, 160 in year three and 41 in year four, according to the company’s abatement request.

The new employees are expected to result in $49.1 million in additional annual payroll.

The public hearing, which is scheduled to take place at 10 a.m. today in the commissioners’ conference room on the fifth floor of the county building, will allow both opponents and supporters of the project to present their views before the commissioners vote on whether to support the tax abatement..

“We’ve had a meeting with the CEOs concerning this, and I was anticipating the 60% tax abatement to be quite reasonable for this size of facility and the number of employees that are going to be housed there,” Commissioner Rick Hernandez said.

Nicolas Coggins, assistant director of the Trumbull County Planning Commission, said the proposed project still needs to be approved by the company’s board of directors.

“We believe that the tax incentive financing will make the financing of the project feasible, helping them move forward with their approvals,” Coggins said.

Howland and Warren township trustees already have approved the 10-year, 60% tax abatement, Coggins said.

“The abatement is specifically for the facility,” Coggins said. “If they want to do a second expansion, they will have to come back.”