CROSSVILLE SECURES GRANT FOR INDUSTRIAL BUILDING TO DRIVE JOBS AND GROWTH
The Crossville Chronicle reports that last week, state, city, and county officials in Tennessee gathered in Crossville to celebrate a $4.8 million grant from the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development for constructing a 100,000-square-foot speculative industrial building—expandable to 200,000 square feet—in the city’s Industrial Development Park on Interchange Drive.
The project, applied for by the City of Crossville with support from Cumberland County, the Chamber of Commerce, the Upper Cumberland Development District, Volunteer Energy Cooperative, and TVA, aims to attract new businesses, investment, and jobs to enable local families to build futures in the area, as emphasized by Mayor RJ Crawford.
Built on a “Select Tennessee Certified Site” prepared since 2018 through prior state grants and extensive due-diligence surveys (including geotechnical, environmental, and archaeological assessments), the facility promises speed to market, permitting predictability, and cost certainty to minimize risks for prospective companies, according to Chamber Director Ethan Hadley, who highlighted a decade of collaborative efforts across administrations.
Assistant Commissioner Brooxie Carlton noted this as only the second such grant awarded statewide, reserved for trusted communities invested in their economic future.
Sain Construction of Manchester, TN, will serve as general contractor, with attendees including state officials Kirby Lewis Gil, Angela Regitko, and Shaun Scantland; city councilmen James Mayberry and Art Gernt; county commissioners Sue York, Karen Shanks, and Greg Maxwell; and Industrial Development Board President Joe Salvato.
(Photo by Gary Nelson of the Crossville Chronicle.)
