A 57-acre property in Columbia Borough could provide an all new tax base and foster job opportunities in the borough if the Columbia Borough Council decides to move forward with acquiring and developing it.

Officials and real estate professionals in Columbia, Lancaster County believe the potential for development there can be just as good as it is in bigger markets because of the borough’s federally designated opportunity zones, which include most of the downtown.

A vacant warehouse in Columbia is being renovated into commercial office space and the real estate firm behind the project aims to find interest among companies that may have trouble finding space in Lancaster city.

One of the last metal-ingot manufacturers in the country is planning to reignite the furnaces of a foundry in Columbia that closed last year.

Redevelopment efforts in Columbia are working to rid the Lancaster County borough of blighted properties - a process that Gov. Tom Wolf said could be helped along by a state severance tax.