By Jessica Waters
The Toccoa Record
Following the receipt of lower-than-expected bids for site work at Hayestone Brady Industrial Park, the Stephens County Development Authority (SCDA) will proceed with additional road work, grading and site preparation earlier than expected.
According to SCDA executive director Tim Martin.
Approximately $7 million in SPLOST receipts have been earmarked for industrial development, said Martin.
“We pledged to ourselves that we would spend $5 million of that on Hayestone Brady,” said Martin, adding that collections from SPLOST is now expected to be closer to $6 million, as opposed to $7 million, but that the SCDA remains committed to the Hayestone Brady project.
Bids were submitted for grading of three lots, the addition of a lift station, a force main and two gravity mains as well as roadwork.
Those bids came back at approximately one half of the expected expenditure; said Martin and SCDA chairman Cam Parker.
Taking into account the savings on the planned work, Martin said they will expand the scope of the work to include paving the entire stretch of one road, grading out additional lots, running additional water and sewer lines and getting several additional plots pad-ready.
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