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Marion training center future in doubt

By Ryan Lewis

Correspondent

KIMBALL, Tenn. — The plan to build a technical skills training center on the old Holland farm along U.S. Highway 41 has endured severe highs and lows over the past year.

According to the plan, Chattanooga State Community College would buy 40 of the nearly 150 acres that Marion County has set aside for the project. Two buildings would be built to accommodate a transfer program and a building trades program for the school, while the county still would own about 100 acres of the surrounding property for expansion.

But that plan died in November.