Washington Township businessman wants to grow environmental firms

Published: Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 12:56a.m.

The seed of a future career was planted early in David Hails.

I watered plants on the way home from school every day, said Hails, who as a 9-year-old would walk to his job at Everything Green, a since-closed Greensburg plant store.

An entrepreneur even then, he grew his own plants to sell in the shop.

I grew sensitive plants the ones where you touch them and they'd fold up, he said. They were big in the '70s. I'd sell them for 50 cents each. I had a mother plant at home that would produce the seeds.

His early agrarian efforts have germinated into a flourishing enterprise.

Hails owns three businesses in Washington Township and wants to expand them.

In April, he'll seek approval from the township supervisors to join five parcels along Goodview Drive that he's bought during the years into one 20-acre property, which he intends to name the Everything Green Business Park, after his childhood post.

Cheryl Dickey, Washington Township's planning commission secretary, said Hails is finalizing paperwork and she isn't aware of any no problems related to the proposal.

He's a good business for the township, Dickey said.

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