Ford Megasite: Blue Oval City turns Haywood property red hot
Ford’s plans for a $5.6 billion auto plant campus with 6,000 workers has turned the spotlight on Haywood County property owners.
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January 2022
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Bluff City Biz: Area’s biggest business story of 2021
In September, during a formal announcement at Shelby Farms Park, Tenn. Gov. Bill Lee referred to Ford’s decision as the “single-largest investment in Tennessee history.”
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December 2021
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Bluff City Biz: Our role in creating Ford’s workforce and Memphis’ cost of living, with Rory Thomas
Memphis Medical District Collaborative president Rory Thomas talks about the potential growth from Ford’s planned investment and attracting outsiders to the Medical District.
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November 2021
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More good news for Haywood County: A hospital reopens
Brownsville’s hospital, closed since 2014, could have an economic ripple effect of nearly 700 jobs in the area and ease pressure on the local emergency medical services.
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October 2021
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Governor names CEO of Megasite Authority
Clay Bright will head operation and development of the Haywood County Megasite. He has been the Tennessee Transportation Commissioner since 2019.
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Watch: Road to $5.6 billion Ford plant bypasses state’s automotive corridor
Two economic development veterans with experience in the state’s Middle Tennessee auto corridor talked on Behind The Headlines about the coming ‘gold rush’ of growth related to the Ford plant that they say will reach Memphis.
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Tennessee lawmakers OK $900M Ford incentive package
About 10 lawmakers voted against or abstained from voting on the Ford bills.
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Courting Ford: How the Memphis Megasite was chosen as the winning site
Memphis area industry recruiters share stories of how West Tennessee landed “the big one.”
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Collierville, Germantown ‘charged’ about Ford site
Economic leaders in east Shelby County expect to see the impacts of Ford in their communities.
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September 2021
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Opinion: Dorothy, this isn’t Arlington anymore
With a short drive time to the proposed Ford Motor Co. campus, suburbs like Arlington and Lakeland are at a crossroads of how to address possible growth.
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What Haywood County can learn from the GM plant in Middle Tennessee
From its founding in 1809, to the Civil War and through the 1980s, fewer than 1,000 people lived in rural Spring Hill. Then, in 1985, General Motors came to town.
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Suburbs could become growth point with proximity to proposed Ford plans
Arlington, Bartlett and Lakeland could emerge as the suburban municipalities that benefit most from Blue Oval City given its proximity to the Haywood County site. Arlington and Lakeland also seem prime for more growth in both housing and retail development before Ford’s announcement, this may only accelerate that process.
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Governor, execs celebrate Megasite news
“Blue Oval City will be the biggest auto manufacturing (site) in our 118-year history,” said Ford president and CEO Jim Farley. “It will also be the cleanest and most efficient. It will produce electric vehicles on a scale we couldn’t have even imagined 10 years ago.”
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Ford to invest $5.6B in Memphis Regional Megasite
Ford Motor Company has selected the Memphis Regional Megasite for an electric vehicle and battery manufacturing campus, investing $5.6 billion and creating 5,800 jobs. Gov. Bill Lee said it was “the largest single investment in this state’s history.”
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Ford to add 10,800 jobs making electric vehicles, batteries
Ford will build three electric-battery factories in Kentucky and Tennessee to make batteries for the next generation of Ford and Lincoln electric vehicles.
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