Another manufacturer is moving into Hunts Point, but as Bronx reporter Erin Clarke tells us, this one may make the neighborhood greener.

Hunts Point isn't just that place where the Food Distribution Center is.

It's a neighborhood surrounded by the East and Bronx Rivers where about 12,000 people live.

"We have lots and lots of waterfront."

For years, companies have built up the area leaving little access to that resource.

Soon that will change.

Part of the Hunts Point waterfront will be transformed into a greenway and pier that overlooks the East River and an existing conservation site.

"The community will have access to the pier," said Rafael Salamanca, district manager of Community Board 2. "You can fish. You can visit. You can sit there, just enjoy the water."

Canadian company McInnis Cement will be building the greenway.

It will also covert this former landfill into a storage and distribution facility. Cement will be transported there by ship from Quebec.

"It's the most economically and environmentally efficient way to move cement," said Jim Braselton, senior vice president of sales, marketing and distribution for McInnis Cement. "Today there's much cement that comes across the Hudson River by truck from rather long distances and you can imagine the effect on the Major Deegan or the Cross Bronx. Those will be eliminated."

But what about the trucks that will come to this site to pick up cement? Hunts Point residents have long expressed concern about thousands of trucks travelling through their community daily.

McInnis will only add about 15 trucks locally and actually reduce truck traffic on the site.

"I had managed to survive on having local short term tenants and so a lot of those are truckers," said Steve Smith, president of Oakpoint Property. "A lot of those kind of got displaced."

Trucks picking up cement will only access the site through 149th Street to keep traffic away from the residential community.

And there's no need to worry about the powdered substance getting in the air.

That cement truck pulls up in front and a spout comes down over a hole in the cement truck and that cement is now loaded.

McInnis plans to break ground in the spring, and with that bring construction and about 20 permanent jobs, which the company says will come from the community.