“It appears Johnstown is their primary site,” Fulton County Center for Regional Growth President and Chief Executive Officer Michael Reese said today.

The addition would be built near Fage USA. The existing warehouse is currently owned by Boston-based Stag Capital Partners. It used to house the former H&J Leather, Finkle Distributors and Core-Mark International firms.

Proliant’s proposed site plans will come before the city Planning Board at its next session at 4 p.m. Aug. 5 at City Hall.

“They’re looking to dry Fage’s whey that we can’t handle,” Gloversville-Johnstown Wastewater Treatment Facility engineer Tyler Masick said Monday.

The sewage treatment plant is involved in a $7 million upgrade project for the sewer plant’s treatment process to deal with more waste products from the local dairy industries. Those industries include the Fage USA yogurt plant and the Euphrates cheese factory. The whey is also converted into biogas for energy needs.

Fage itself is also undergoing a $120 expansion, creating 150 more jobs at the Johnstown Industrial Park.

Proliant Dairy and LGI process many food industry byproducts into value-added food and feed ingredients. Annually, hundreds of millions of pounds of raw materials are redirected into commercially viable products, the website says.

It was uncertain this morning how many jobs the new project will create. Proliant Dairy officials couldn’t be reached for comment Monday and this morning.

Masick said Proliant Dairy may end up being another big revenue producer for the sewer plant just like Fage, its current top customer.

“They’ve given us some preliminary numbers,” Masick said of Proliant.

According to its application to the city Planning Board, the proposed Proliant Dairy redevelopment site will have a drainage area of about seven acres.

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