{"id":1634,"date":"2011-08-16T11:44:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T15:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/industrial-park-acreage-andrea-schruijer-vlcia-19-july-2011.html"},"modified":"2011-08-16T11:44:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T15:44:48","slug":"industrial-park-acreage-andrea-schruijer-vlcia-19-july-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/industrial-park-acreage-andrea-schruijer-vlcia-19-july-2011.html","title":{"rendered":"Industrial Park Acreage &mdash;Andrea Schruijer @ VLCIA 19 July 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/o9b5gnahbsg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/o9b5gnahbsg\/default.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nApparently VLCIA has few or no tracts of 200 acres or up<br \/>\nout of their 577 acres.<\/p>\n<p>\nNew Executive Director Andrea Schruijer said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWe&#8217;re looking at having prospects in,<br \/>\nor existing industries are looking to come here,<br \/>\nwe don&#8217;t actually look like we have a 577 acre tract that we can market.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s actually a lot smaller than that.<br \/>\nSo when a company comes in and wants 200 acres<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s something we have a gap in.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She&#8217;s following up on former chairman Jerry Jennett&#8217;s request.<br \/>\nJennett remarked at this meeting<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMy thinking was that as these parcels get used up, they just disappear<br \/>\nfrom the list.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Does that mean they&#8217;re not going to issue more bonds to buy more land,<br \/>\nlike the<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/05\/lowndes-county-has-to-pay-industrial-authoritys-bond-debts.html\"><br \/>\n$15 million in bonds they issued to buy that 577 acres<\/a><br \/>\nthat Lowndes County has guaranteed for them even it requires raising our taxes?<\/p>\n<p>\nI commend VLCIA for at least trying to figure out what they&#8217;ve got.<\/p>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/o9b5gnahbsg\"><br \/>\nthe video:<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o9b5gnahbsg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<small><br \/>\nIndustrial Park Acreage &mdash;Andrea Schruijer @ VLCIA 19 July 2011<br \/>\n<br \/>\nRegular Meeting, Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority (VLCIA),<br \/>\n<br \/>Norman Bennett, Tom Call, Roy Copeland chairman, Mary Gooding, Jerry Jennett,<br \/>\n<br \/>Andrea Schruijer Executive Director, J. Stephen Gupton attorney, Allan Ricketts Project Manager,<br \/>\n<br \/>\nValdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 19 July 2011.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVideos by John S. Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.<br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently VLCIA has few or no tracts of 200 acres or up out of their 577 acres. New Executive Director Andrea Schruijer said: We&#8217;re looking at having prospects in, or existing industries are looking to come here, we don&#8217;t actually look like we have a 577 acre tract that we can market. 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