Plans for proposed access to the former New Jersey Zinc Company's West Plant in Palmerton will be shared this week.

From Tuesday through Thursday, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation will have plans on display for proposed access to the 100-acre property located along Route 248 and Mauch Chunk Road in Palmerton.The plans will be available for the Northface Industrial Park project from noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday at Palmerton Borough Hall.From 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, representatives from the owner will be available for questions and comments about the proposal.Proposed AccessThe project proposes to provide new points for direct access from Route 248 and Delaware Avenue to the property, eliminating traffic from the site to Mauch Chunk Road, the only access now to the site.The purpose of the plans display is to obtain formal comment (public or private and verbal or written) on the project.Preferred alternate points are access from Route 248, and a new intersection on Delaware Avenue located west of Mauch Chunk Road, also providing access to the site.This is to eliminate any new traffic generated from the industrial park to use either Mauch Chunk Road in the borough, or White Street in Bowmanstown.Status of SiteNorthface Development LLC of Lehighton purchased the property, about 120 acres, in 2009.Since then, the buildings have been taken down, and remediation work has been under way, according to George Petrole, chief operating officer.Petrole gave an update on the site at a Carbon Chamber & Economic Development mixer held at the West End Saloon in Palmerton in November.At that time, Petrole said the company was in the process of hauling in dirt to the site, which it had been doing since 2012. He added there was an issue with the trucks coming, as some days, there were 150 trucks going into the site, he said at that time.The plan, Petrole said, is to offer two- and four-acre parcels for development 30 acres west of the existing Mauch Chunk Road access. That should be completed by the end of this year.Petrole previously said the company will entertain any offers for that site.As of November, five full-time jobs had been created as part of the remediation, as well as a number of part-time jobs on the site, Petrole said.Prospective TenantsPetrole said at the November chamber function that there has been interest. He said the company turned down an offer less than a year after it purchased the site from a company that wanted to do recycling.He said at that time the property could attract Fortune 500 companies to Carbon County. Some offices, warehouses, or industrial buildings could also be included in the industrial development area, Petrole said.The property had been in abandonment since Aug. 19, 2002, when the seller filed a Voluntary Petition for Relief under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code.