Monday, December 17, 2007

New auto supplier may come to Auburn industrial park

Auburn’s industrial park continues to grow.

March 8, 2007

Auburn’s industrial park continues to grow.

At tonight’s planning commission meeting, the industrial development board and city staff will be requesting that the commission recommend to the City Council the conditional use approval of an industrial use for an as yet unnamed business.

“Project Pear” is a plastic injection molding company that will supply several automotive manufacturers. Economic development staff and the automotive supplier are still finishing up some of the building details, but they may announce the new industry in coming weeks. The location, 265 Teague Court, was formerly the site of Alabama Board Company, which relocated to Louisiana, and Global Management Business (GMB) Automotive USA, which announced May 9, 2006, that it was coming to Auburn but decided for internal reasons not to build the manufacturing plant at this time. Megan McGowen, assistant director of economic development, said Project Pear looks like it would occupy about 90,000 square feet of space in the Auburn Industrial Park off Pumphrey Avenue.

In other business, the commission will consider:

• Annexing: Mt. Vernon Baptist Church, 4881 U.S. Highway 29 S., 12.5 acres; Ed Richardson, 925 Rocky Hill Drive, 4.1 acres; Sebron and Melvin Isom, Wimberly Road south of Martin Luther King Drive, 40 acres; and Segars Properties LLC, Shug Jordan Parkway, 10.05 acres;
• Final plat approval: Tuscany Village Plat 1B, off North College Street and south of Forestry Preserve, 46-lot performance residential subdivision; and Heritage Park, southeast corner of North Donahue Drive and Bragg Avenue, 12 lots;
• Conditional use: Bar 51, 2328 S. College St., approval for a lounge; Drive-up ATM, One Point Financial, 1717-A S. College St., approval for a road service use; Homes at Lakeview, 1103 and 1105 Lakeview Drive, approval for a twin home development; and City Walk Plaza, 230 E. Glenn Ave., approval for a multiple-family development, condominiums. The planning commission meeting is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. and will be held in city council chambers, 171 N. Ross St.

For more information visit the City of Auburn online, http://www.auburnalabama.org. Click on “Planning Commission Packet” under News Bulletin.