Randall Peters, chairman of the Catoosa County Economic Development Authority.The Catoosa County Economic Development Authority (CCEDA) is scheduled to vote today to buy 20 acres on Battlefield Parkway for a development code-named “Project Jump.”
The authority is eyeing two parcels east of Pine Grove Road about two miles west of Interstate 75, but no other details were forthcoming from officials on Monday. In the past, the county development agency has purchased vacant land to help bring a Costco warehouse store and Cabela’s outdoors store to Fort Oglethorpe and to accommodate the new Ringgold campus of Northwest Georgia Technical College.
“It’s not a public conversation at this point in time,” said authority Chairman Randall Peters.
According to the CCEDA agenda emailed Monday and Catoosa County Tax Assessor’s Office records, the authority is looking to buy a 9.88 parcel east of Pine Grove Road owned by the Ringgold Church of Christ that’s valued at $592,800 and a 9.47-acre parcel next to it owned by Brice L. Holland Trustee in Sarasota, Fla., that’s valued at $568,200.
“We can’t really say who the end user’s going to be or what [the project’s] going to be,” said Katie Sponberger, CCEDA economic development coordinator.