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The technology matters. The capacity matters. But more than anything else, auto manufacturers understand they will only be as good as the training and workers with hands-on new gas-powered and electric vehicles.
Communities leaders jostling to attract vehicle manufacturers say the companies and their high-paying jobs can change citizens’ lives. But some critics say the cost is too great.
Ford’s plans for a $5.6 billion auto plant campus with 6,000 workers has turned the spotlight on Haywood County property owners.
They had their doubters, but leaders from three counties in the Tupelo, Mississippi, area believed in their vision for rebooting the local economy.
“We’re not just an auto town. It’s an important part of the community, but not that big gorilla,” said Chris Ziegler, who worked 31 years at GM, almost 28 of them for Saturn and GM in Spring Hill.
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.
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.
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.
Clay Bright will head operation and development of the Haywood County Megasite. He has been the Tennessee Transportation Commissioner since 2019.
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:
State lawmakers are set to begin a special legislative session Monday, Oct. 18.
Gov. Bill Lee will call a special session of the General Assembly on Oct. 18, he announced in a tweet Thursday, Sept. 30. COVID-related legislation may also be on the table.
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.
The man just brought a Ford assembly plant to the state with more jobs than anyone in this region could have imagined. How can his potential challengers, Republican or Democrat, top that?
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.
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.
“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.”
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.”
Rep. David Kustoff reiterated familiar positions on the economy during remarks to the Arlington Chamber of Commerce Wednesday, as well as touching on the status of the Memphis Regional Megasite and Hernando DeSoto Bridge repairs.
Gov. Bill Lee is ordering more aggressive marketing and pushing a $52 million infrastructure investment in the Memphis Regional Megasite, located in Haywood County.
In a luncheon speech to the Arlington Chamber of Commerce, the secretary of state highlights a smooth Tennessee election and the problems facing businesses during the pandemic.
The Memphis Regional Megasite made the organization’s top 3 in its 15-year list of worst government waste.
State Sen. Paul Rose wants to make sure that Gov. Bill Lee lives up to his stance that West Tennessee will get its fair share of attention.
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