Lee Erwin reporting
lerwin@clarksvillenow.com
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – Montgomery County Commissioners met in their formal session Monday, October 14 and showed their support for Hankook Tire Company and their plans to build a new plant in the Clarksville-Montgomery County Corporate Business Park.
Montgomery County Commissioners had a short agenda with two resolutions involving the announcement earlier in the day that Hankook Tire would be opening the new facility which would bring 1,800 new jobs to Clarksville-Montgomery County. The move will also make Hankook Tire the largest industry in the Business Park.
Commissioners unanimously passed a resolution for Montgomery County, the City of Clarksville and the Montgomery County Industrial Board to support an incentive plan for the Hankook Tire plant. The plan involves just over 468 acres in the Business Park in an area bound by I-24, International Boulevard and Rossview Road.
The company is investing $800 million in the new state-of-the-art manufacturing plant with groundbreaking expected by the end of 2014 and production of high performance radial tires scheduled to begin by 2016. The manufacturing facility will be the first in the U.S. for the Hankook Tire Company.
Montgomery County Mayor Carolyn Bowers talked about one of the main things many people want to know and that is when will the new plant begin hiring employees? “Hankook mentioned today that they will do some preliminary hiring at the end of 2014 but most of it will be when they open sometime in 2015,” Bowers said.
Other resolutions passed by the County Commission Monday included the acceptance of grant funds from the Bureau of Justice Assistance of the U.S. Department of Justice and the Tennessee Department of Transportation, Division of the Governor’s Highway Safety Office. Additional money was also authorized for the completion of Emergency Medical Service Station #23 on Ussery Road.