Bartlett wants to build 200-acre-plus industrial park
Bartlett Mayor David Parsons speaks at a Bank of Bartlett luncheon Jan. 28. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Eighteen months after annexing land needed for a new industrial park in the northwest corner of the city, Bartlett is set to take the next steps toward creating it.
The suburb’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen on Tuesday, Sept. 23, voted unanimously to accept two $100,000 grants that will kick-start the environmental study for the proposed development — called Bartlett Innovation Park — at the northwest corner of Walter K. Singleton Parkway and Bolen Huse Road.
City officials envision between 1.7 million and 2 million square feet of industrial space there within the next three to five years.
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Michael Waddell
Michael Waddell is a native Memphian with more than 20 years of professional writing and editorial experience, working most recently with The Daily News and High Ground News.
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