Volkswagen’s supplier park will initially employ about 500 workers, and the German automaker plans to try to increase that number, officials said Friday.
“We’ll keep on pushing to expand the park,” said Frank Fischer, chief executive of VW’s Chattanooga operations.
Six companies Mr. Fischer would not immediately name will move into the supplier park and provide about 16 components to the car VW plans to produce. The supplier area will open in June next to the carmaker’s $1 billion factory that is to employ over 2,000 people.
Mr. Fischer said two 223,000-square-foot buildings will occupy the 41-acre supplier park at Enterprise South industrial park.
The suppliers are expected to be publicly identified in March after contract negotiations come to a close, he said.