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Before lawmakers approved $138 million in October, costs had already risen from $60 million to $136 million. On Dec. 20, with no discussion, the State Building Commission approved a budget revision to $274 million.
Stonebridge Golf Course sold only about 20,000 rounds of golf this year. That creates an opportunity to improve the golfing experience and grow the business, the new owners say.
Industry leaders covered everything industrial, office and retail, and two of the region’s top economic development experts talked Ford and its unprecedented planned development.
The boys from rural Tennessee are doing what naughty boys in rural communities have always done. They’re metaphorically climbing up to the top of the Memphis Regional Megasite water tower to paint out what they don’t like.
Arlington’s first hotel is preparing to soon start receiving guests for sports tournaments, wedding receptions and the upcoming developments east of town.
Blue Oval City’s 3,600 acres will include space for a supplier park. Still, state officials anticipate some suppliers locating near the Megasite of West Tennessee.
Memphis Regional Megasite of West Tennessee: The Haywood County site no longer includes a reference to the city of Memphis. Now, it’s officially the Megasite of West Tennessee.
Gov. Bill Lee names Charlie Tuggle, executive vice president and general counsel for First Horizon National, and Tipton County Mayor Jeff Huffman to the Megasite Authority of West Tennessee.
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.
Now with Ford Motor Co. set to build a plant in Haywood County by 2025, Bartlett High School’s CNC machinery may also help provide hands-on learning for students to prepare for jobs in the automotive industry.Related article: Road to $5.6 billion Ford plant bypasses state's automotive corridor
The public won’t be able to inspect the contracts until they’re finalized, prompting criticism among transparency advocates that the Megasite Authority will be able to spend millions of dollars with little oversight. Related story:
About 10 lawmakers voted against or abstained from voting on the Ford bills.
State lawmakers are set to begin a special legislative session Monday, Oct. 18.
The council is on record opposing TVA’s plan to truck coal ash from the old Allen Fossil Plant to a landfill in Capleville. The Tuesday council committee discussion also ventured into TVA’s role in the Blue Oval City Ford battery plant.
The center’s new report found that Memphis is No.1 when compared to its peers in the area for diverse tech talent.
Memphis and the surrounding region lost out when the state’s original auto corridor was established in Middle Tennessee almost 40 years ago. But the new Ford plant in Haywood County comes with lessons from that pursuit as well as doubts and the prospect of more change beyond the electric vehicles powered by batteries made at the megasite.
“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.”