Israeli-owned gun maker looks to buy factory site in Andersonville
The MLily warehouse site on Mountain Road in Andersonville could be the home of an israeli-based gun manufacturer, according to plans submitted to Anderson County. - G. Chambers Williams III
A gun manufacturer based in Israel plans to buy a building in the industrial park on Mountain Road in Andersonville to “manufacture, produce and assemble” handguns, and distribute accessories for them, including night-vision sights. Officials of the company were expected to appear before the Anderson County Board of Zoning Appeals on Tuesday night to see a zoning variance on a building at 1485 Mountain Road, just east of U.S. 441 (Norris Freeway) that is now owned by MLily USA, Inc., a China-based mattress manufacturer, which has been using it as a warehouse. The Israeli company would invest about $20 million in the project and bring about 80 new jobs, according to Andy Wallace, president of the Anderson County Economic Development Agency. “This is an Israeli-owned company that produces handguns for the private market,” Wallace said. “They manufacture handguns for the consumer market in the U.S.” The BZA variance request also seeks permission for the company to store imported night-vision sights that contain the radioactive material tritium, also known as radioactive hydrogen.
Read MoreNorris council sets special meeting to take action on RV park lawsuit
Covenant Life Church in Norris has been in a battle with the city of Norris more than five years over the church’s unauthorized Solid Rock RV Park. - G. Chambers Williams III
The Norris City Council met in private with its attorneys at the start of Monday night’s regular meeting to discuss its ongoing lawsuits involving Covenant Life Church and its unauthorized recreational-vehicle park. Immediately after returning to the council room to reconvene the meeting in public, Mayor Chris Mitchell asked that the council members set a special meeting for 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25, to take some as yet unspecified action on the lawsuits, based on advice from the attorneys during the private meeting. Although the city won a permanent injunction against the church from the U.S. District Court in Knoxville on May 1 ordering the church to shut down the campground and remove the remaining recreational vehicles from the site, there are still a few issues undecided by the court, including whether the city’s zoning regulations actually bar the use of the church’s property as an RV park. Also during Monday’s meeting, the council discussed but deferred action on an ordinance proposed by City Manager Adam Ledford that would place restrictions and requirements for city permits for any work property owners might want to perform on city right-of-way across the borders of their land.
Read MoreFrench company to invest $5B, create 300 jobs
A French company plans to invest more than $5 billion to build a facility in Oak Ridge to enrich uranium, an enterprise expected to generate more than 300 new jobs, state and regional government leaders announced last week. Orano USA, based in Bethesda, Maryland, has selected the Roane County part of Oak Ridge “as the preferred site to construct a new, multi-billion-dollar, state-of-the-art centrifuge uranium enrichment facility,” the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development said in a statement. The project “represents the single-largest [industrial] investment in Tennessee history,” the ECD statement said. “The uranium enrichment center will be a multi-structure commercial-production site covering approximately 750,000 square feet, making it one of the largest in North America,” the ECD said. Although the site is on the Roane County side of the city, the jobs likely will be filled mostly by Anderson County residents. “Oak Ridge is now back in business enriching uranium,” said Andy Wallace, president of the Anderson County Economic Development Agency. Global headquarters of Orano is in Paris, France. Orano is a leading technology and services provider for the commercial and federal nuclear industries.
Read MoreChamber breaks ground at new headquarters site
“We’re 93 years old. … Now we’re going to go 90 more years,” Anderson County Chamber of Commerce President Rick Meredith said to the crowd assembled Tuesday morning for the groundbreaking ceremony at the site of the chamber’s planned new headquarters. The site, at North Charles G. Seivers Boulevard and West Weaver Street in Clinton, was donated to the chamber late last year by Joe Hollingsworth Jr., CEO of The Hollingsworth Companies, and was the second site chosen for the new chamber headquarters. “The chamber has taken an increasingly more-powerful position in the community,” Hollingsworth said at Tuesday’s event. “And it’s hard for us not to recognize the changes. Now, they still do the ribbon-cuttings, but dang, they work hard to get new businesses in here. They work really hard to grow the existing businesses. “This is just a reflection of what the community is doing,” he said. “But they’re leading the way.” Also on hand to speak Tuesday morning was Clinton Realtor and auctioneer Bear Stephenson, who Meredith revealed at the event had donated $1 million toward the cost of the new chamber headquarters.
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