Floyd County expected to handle infrastructure work at 2 sites
Both projects are at a site near the intersection of Ga. 140 and Ga. 53.
Floyd County Manager Jamie McCord said the county is likely to use inhouse personnel to do additional grading work and road construction at two industrial sites north of Rome. McCord told members of the Development Authority of Floyd County Wednesday that both projects could get underway soon, but did not provide a specific timetable.
The county manager said plans have been submitted to Kinder Morgan pipeline authorities for the crossing of a major natural gas line adjacent to the Lowe’s Regional Distribution Center in the North Floyd Industrial Park off Ga. 140. The road across that gas line will open access to another 64 acres of prospective industrial property.
“It’s not a complicated project, it’s just a minor road extension,” McCord said.
‘As far as a couple of houses, we probably overpaid for it, but when you include what we got as far as the ten acres, the access, the median cut off 53 to construct that and get permits to do that, it would have been another half a million dollars.’ Jamie McCord Floyd County manager
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McCord also said former property owners on ten acres at the intersection of Plainville Road and Ga. 53 have until the end of January the property.
Once that occurs, he said county crews would do the grading work to bring that property to the same grade as the other 100 acres of the site on the northwest corner of the Ga. 140-Ga. 53 intersection.
“As far as a couple of houses, we probably overpaid for it, but when you include what we got as far as the 10 acres, the access, the median cut off 53 to construct that and get permits to do that, it would have been another half a million dollars,” McCord said.
Rome Floyd Chamber Economic Development Director Heather Seckman sparked some conversation of a speculative industrial building when she told the authority that she only has one industrial building now available, the old Shaw site off East 12th Street.
“It doesn’t show very well,” Seckman said.
McCord was asked about the use of special purpose, local option sales tax funds for a spec building and responded that it was possible but that under SPLOST law, such a building could only be leased to a tenant, never sold.
The authority three new members Wednesday, IT consultant Jeff Kehl, Heritage First Bank executive
Ryan Earnest and Rome attorney Chris Twyman.
Holdover Charles Stephens was elected chairman and Earnest was selected as treasurer.