Just south of the Tennessee-Georgia state border along Interstate 75, one of the largest industrial parks in the Chattanooga area is taking shape.
A development group that has already lured Volkswagen supplier Sesé Industrial Services and the container company Pods to the Enterprise South Industrial Park in Chattanooga has begun work on two other, bigger industrial sites in Catoosa County, Georgia, with the goal of attracting more than $100 million of new industrial development and more than 700 new jobs.
Known as the Cloud Springs I-75 Park, the new development is a joint development between the Chattanooga-based White Oak Enterprises and the Columbus, Ohio-based Tenby Partners.
The developers bought two sites along Cloud Springs Road from Brown Brothers Inc., which has used the properties for dirt pits to supply fill dirt to its construction sites, and are planning to build more than 1.1 million square feet of industrial and warehouse space for a number of tenants.
“This is a great location for manufacturing, and it offers a great untapped labor pool in Catoosa County,” Rich Schuen, CEO of Tenby Properties, said in a telephone interview. “Over 80% of the workers who live in Catoosa County go out of the county to work, so it is very much a bedroom community with a great supply of available workers.”