Beaufort County is selling 3.9 acres it owns for $39,000 to help spur an economic-development project in Aurora.

The property is being acquired by EAS Global LLC, which plans to build a 4,500-square-foot building to house offices, according to Bob Heuts, the county’s economic developer. The Beaufort County Board of Commissioners approved the sale of the land at its Nov. 4 meeting.

“It’s a company that services and rebuilds acid-reactor systems for companies. This is a situation where these folks will have certain expertise to walk into a chemical plant, clean the parts and pieces that have been reacting in some cases with sulfuric acid and other types of chemicals. They come in and clean that part of it and rebuild the system, rebuilt any parts or pieces that need to be rebuild,” Heuts said.

The company expects to invest close to a million dollars in the business and create up to 200 jobs within five years, Heuts said. Some of the company’s employees will travel to job sites all over the nation, possibly abroad, he said.

“I’m going to be biased about this things. We really don’t have that many opportunities to do things in other parts of the county. Aurora seems that sometimes like they’re on the other side of the world, but they are part of Beaufort County. I think there are some good things going on there, obviously with the PCS mine that we have at there. A lot people work out there, and a lot of spin-off businesses that have opportunities to do business there as a result of them locating there,” Heuts said. “EAS Global is one of those businesses that will start providing services, hopefully, to the (PotashCorp) facility, and that would be a benefit, of course, to (PotashCorp) and EAS Global.”

The resolution adopted by the board reads that the sale of the land “will stimulate the local economy, promoted business, and result in the creation of a substantial number of jobs in Beaufort County that pay at or above the median average hourly wage in the county.”