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October 27, 2018 2018-10-27T16:00:00 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM 836 Reynolds StreetAugusta, GA30901 Admission: Free to the...
Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016 NBC 26 at 7 O’Clock
EDGEFIELD COUNTY, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) — Business runs a little slower in Edgefield.
“It suffers from much of the problems that small towns throughout America suffer and that is major employers like the textile mills left the town began to dry up,” George Thornton said, the CEO of the National Wild Turkey Federation in Edgefield.
Thornton does a little bit of everything in Edgefield, but his main contribution is the 700 acre economic boom they built.
“We have put $9 million into the ground here in the last 25 months, we think that’s bringing a run rate of about 30,000 people a year to the county,” Thornton said.
Now a new project emerges with the promise of an 11 and half million dollar investment, Project 007. County council approved a multi-county industrial park and a sharing a fee associated with the project with Aiken County during their meeting Tuesday night. This was the second reading for both items.
“Also gives us 17 full time jobs, now these are good jobs with benefits, a reputable company that we are glad to have in this county,” Edgefield County Tommy Paradise said.
Paradise says this unknown company is the start of driving more industry into the county.
“We would like to see the development of the industrial base, the residential base and of course if we get the residential that will spur the commercial,” Paradise said.
Thornton is investing more in the county with a 42 room hotel and conference center here at this old textile mill, but a new industry shows Edgefield may be next up for further growth.
“There’s enough money coming in not just from ourselves, but through this new project,” Thornton said, “But we hear about other people, other entrepreneurs and a lot of individual investors expressing interest.”
A third reading on the fee and industrial park is expected at council’s next meeting on Sept. 6, 2016.
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