In September 1999, Senator Jay Rockefeller announced that Okuno International would open a hydraulic cylinder plant in Prichard, offering 50 new jobs and eventually expanding to 100.

This facility closed in 2018”[6] In 2003, Allevard opened a coil spring and stabilizer bar plant in Prichard originally employing approximately 90 people.

[7] In January 2008, construction began on the Heartland Corridor, a train route of the Norfolk Southern Railway that leads from the Virginia coast to Columbus, Ohio.

An intermodal facility was placed in Prichard, to allow for the cars to be easily transferred between rail, highway, waterway, and airway transportation.

[9] The West Virginia Port Authority put the facility up for auction in 2020 after losing a half million dollars a year.