INDUSTRY APPRECIATION FARM-CITY EDITION, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1982, PAGE Getting ready for the County, and a host of other committees and volunteers who all worked to make this project a success and at the same time a meaningful learning experience for all who become involved. With the certification process came a new county- industrial sales brochure, the purchase of a 51-acre tract of land for industrial development purposes, a countywide inventory of available sites and buildings, many of which are under option to the Chamber, and a knowledgeable industrial sales team who became thoroughtly familiar with Jackson County's assets and liabilities from a total utilities, education, transportation, recreation, culture, livability, religion, professions, government, business, agriculture, finance and services. During the year, the Chamber announced the availability of Alabama's largest industrial site- the Tennessee-Tombigbee Industrial Park- complete with all utilities, rail, highway access, and docking facilities. No other industrial site in Alabama or the TVA region, has the amenities commensurate with this site, situated on Goosepond Island. To further accentuate the desirability of this site, Revere AlumimumSoutheast indicated willingness to make available land on this island for prospective industries, albeit alumimum or metal related industries are to receive priority.
The Tennessee Valley Authority is currently producing a color brochure of the island with aerial photos of existing buildings and the docking facility fronting on the Tenn-Tom Waterway scheduled to open in 1986. It will shorten the distance from Jackson County to the Gulf of By Ralph Sheppard of Scottsboro, Jackson spectrum regarding Chamber President With an unemployment rate in access of 20 percent, Jackson County has its problems. Like every effective Chamber of Commerce, our problems become challenges when our voluntary leadership is channeled in a positive direction with clear-cut, properly defined goals and objectives indentified. Moreover, our current problems bring to light another salient point: that by collective, organized effort, keeping our membership fully appraised of what needs doing and our ability to do it, much will be accomplished. Certainly, one voice raised in defense of a right or one person or business taking on a project is often weak and ineffectual, but when many voices are raised and many people work together for the Chamber and Jackson County, much is achieved.
One of our greatest projects consummated this year has been our certification as a "Prepared City" by the Alabama Development Office. This designation culminated a three-year effort by our Industrial Task Force, City DE DEDICATED TO PROGRES WE SALUTE The Farms and Industries of Jackson County! BUILDING-PLANNING GROWING STRONGER! ASSETS: $233 MILLION DOLLARS "PLAN YOUR FUTURE GROW WITH US!" EIGHT LOCATIONS TO SERVE MEMBER First Main Memorial Office: Parkway 1900 HUNTSVILLE 100 South Side Square 8402 Memorial Parkway, S.W. Federal Savings to $100,000 SCOTTSBORO Loan 716 East Hobbs Insurance Corp American ATHENS 4008 University Drive, Street Savings Insured Federal 408 817 East South Laurel Broad Street Street Your STEVENSON SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION LENDER Highway 72 years assistance in TVA's enviromental studies, prove that Jackson Countians want and the need the North Alabama CoalGasification Project. The Chamber pledges its support to both Revere and Ballet in our quest to locate desirable industries for these facilities. We are working with Albatross Properties, York, S.
C. to locate prospective industries for the former Ballet Building; and the Revere Reduction facility, consisting of over 875,000 square feet, is available for development. The Chamber has also shown prospects the former Carver High School facility and the Camp Scottsboro property. Other available buildings in Jackson County which have been identified include the Rudder Building and St. Clair property in Stevenson, an available building in Bridgeport and other buildings in Scottsboro.
The Chamber appreciates the support it has received from various organizations enlisting support for our industrial development activities. The Jackson County Board of Realtors recently ahead Mexico by over 500 miles via the Port of Mobile. The Chamber has taken great stride in its marketing program for this site, having advertised in the international edition of the Wall Street Journal. In addition, your chamber president attended the annual meeting of the Southeast U.S.-Japan Association held in Nashville in September where he met with Japanese businessmen and government leaders in an effort to sell Scottsboro and Jackson County as desirable industrial sites. Moreover, the Chamber's efforts to secure the North Alabama Coal Gasification Plant at Murphy Hill became more prominent this year as the U.
S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation indentified its final consortium member, Raymond Engineering of Houston. At a recent public hearing in Guntersville, the Chamber secured over 1,500 signatures on petitions in addition to scores of letters of support on business and industry letterhead, all endorsing the Murphy Hill site. This support, coupled with our presented $500 to the Chamber's Industrial Deveopment Task Force for expenses incurred in this effort. Our appreciation is extended to the chairman and members of the Industrial Development Task Force and the Scottsboro Industrial Board for their cooperaton and dedication in this effort.
This group made it possible for us to pay for the 25-acre site adjacent to Halstead and for the industrial sales brochures. We are also indebted to the Jackson County Commision for their cooperation and support and to several local members for their work in the production of our industrial sales brochure. My desire in stating the above should serve as an omen of great things in store for Scottsboro and Jackson County as we prepare for the years" ahead. Support your Chamber DR. RALPH SHEPPARD.
