NEWS
REAL ESTATE AND BUSINESS PARKS
Florence County, S.C., and
PACE Group Form Venture
The 1,500-acre certified Grist Mill Industrial Park
located on Interstate 95 is being promoted jointly by
the PACE Group, the developer of the park, and the
Florence County Economic Development Partnership.
The site is well suited to support manufacturing and
assembly, and lots will be subdivided into individual
parcels based on a company’s needs. This industrial
park is one of the few certified sites in the state of
South Carolina, a designation awarded by the South
Carolina Department of Commerce. The process verifies
that utilities, transportation and other critical infrastructure are in place that will allow for immediate development. To learn more, visit www.thepacegroupllc.com.
Clarendon County, S.C., Features
Unique Facility Opportunity
Heavy fabricators have an opportunity to purchase
a 53,000-square-foot turnkey facility in Clarendon
County, which could be up and running within weeks.
The building was formerly used to make tanker trailers,
and would serve a variety of heavy fabrication and heavy
welding operations. The facility, which sits on a
29-acre site in the Clarendon County Industrial Park,
can be expanded as 200 acres are available at the park.
The facility is fully equipped and tailored for a heavy
manufacturing operation, and features four heavy
cranes, and 25 drive-in doors. To learn more, visit
www.clarendoncountyusa.com.
Newport News, Va., Site
Designated A “Right Now Site”
The Oakland Industrial Park in Newport News has
been recognized by the Virginia Economic Development
Partnership as a “Right Now Site,” a program that estab-lishes minimum infrastructure requirements and other
“readiness standards” for industrial parks, such as available acreage, utilities and proximity to highways and
interstates. The Oakland Industrial Park is recognized
as a site ideal for the industrial, general industrial, light
industrial and the distribution warehouse sectors. The
park is home to 20 companies at this time. The site
designation “allows us to attract and recruit companies
by assuring them that they can locate or expand here
quickly and without hassle,” says Florence Kingston,
director of development, city of Newport News. To
learn more, visit www.nngov.com/development.
STATES
ALABAMA
Dae-Il USA Corp. To Locate
In Chambers County
Dae-Il USA, a manufacturer of
struts and automotive parts, will site
to the former Halla Mando Valley
plant in Chambers County. The
company’s parent is Dae-Il Precision
Co. located in Cheon Buk, Korea,
which is a leader in the manufacture
of auto parts. Dae-Il USA expects to
hire 70 employees within the first
three years of operation; hiring will
begin in late 2010. To learn more
about the project, visit
www.chambersida.com.
Alabama State Port
Authority Partners
With Panama Canal
Authority
The Panama Canal Authority has
signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Alabama
State Port Authority to increase
cooperation, such as joint marketing
