SOUTH PITTSBURG, Tenn. – City leaders are looking to recruit new businesses to the town, but to do that, they’ll need to open access to several locations along U.S. Highway 72.
At the South Pittsburg Commission’s February meeting, Mayor Virgil Holder said a Tennessee Department of Transportation planning grant could help them study the problem.
The areas to be studied include Sweetens Cove Road to the State Highway 156 split along U.S. Highway 72, Cedar Avenue in the downtown South Pittsburg area, and U.S. Highway 72 from the split to the Alabama state line.
Virgil HolderThe grant for the studies would not exceed $125,000, Holder said.
South Pittsburg would be responsible for 10 percent of matching funds for the grant, or a maximum of $12,500.