Guest column: Planning the road to BlueOval City
Construction is underway for Ford Motor Co.’s BlueOval City. Once completed, the campus is expected to employ around 6,000 people. (Ziggy Mack/Special to The Daily Memphian file)
The real work is just starting for the municipalities within the impact crater of Ford Motor Co.’s new BlueOval City electric vehicle campus in Haywood County. How exactly are the surrounding communities going to react?
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