Farm Bureau Insurance to open second Clinton location
Workers from Southern Signs of Knoxville install a sign on the front of the new office of Farm Bureau Insurance in the same shopping center as Buddy’s bar-b-q and the Tenno- va Primany Care clinic on North Charles G. Seivers Boulevard on Thursday, July 15. Up in the bucket is Brandon Beler, while carrying the ladder is Keith Brooks Jr. (photo:G. Chambers Williams III )
Michael Bowers, the agency manager for the current local Farm Bureau office in South Clinton, said that Jarrett Galloway, one of the agents from that office, will manage the new location.
The new office will be at 2204 N. Charles G. Seivers Blvd., sandwiched between Buddy’s and the Tennova clinic. Workers from Southern Signs Inc. of Knoxville installed a large “Farm Bureau” sign at the top front of the building late last week. Farm Bureau is opening the new office to handle the growth in the area, and Bowers said that it eventually would add a second agent.
Bowers and the other agents now working out of the South Clinton Farm Bureau office, at 206 Hiway Drive, will remain at that location, he said.
The new office is expected to help Farm Bureau focus more on clients in that area and east, including Norris and Andersonville, he said.
There are multiple new residential subdivisions with hundreds of new homes being built within a short distance of the new location, which is just across Seivers Boulevard from the Arby’s and Golden Girls restaurants.
The city of Clinton issued a building permit on June 17 to TN Farm Bureau for
a $75,000 “commercial interior” project in the 1,200-square-foot space.
Jenkins & Stiles Construction Co. was listed as the contractor.
Andy Hillmer of Knoxville-based Southern Commercial, LLC, developers of the Sinking Springs LLC/Glen Alpine strip center that includes Buddy’s, said that Farm Bureau was the last of the tenants to be signed to lease space in the building, which is now full.
Immediately to the west, Hillmer is building another strip center, Glen Alpine II, that will include a Starbucks and a wine/liquor store. Construction is already underway.
Just east of Buddy’s is another development that will have just one business — a new standalone Sonic drive-in restaurant.
Construction has not begun yet on the Sonic, and no building permit has been issued. Hillmer said he owns that property, but is just leasing the land to the developer, who will construct the building. He could not provide a timetable for that project.