Still Hope For Railroad Tie Facility, Jobs For Century

August 2, 2010

Century’s mayor still has high hopes that a new industrial plant will locate in the town’s former Alger-Sullivan Lumberyard, eventually bringing a couple of hundred of jobs to the area.

Plans for the railroad crosstie treatment facility were first announced back in March, when Mayor Freddie McCall told the Century Town Council that there was “something on the horizon” for the old lumber mill, and that he had already expected an announcement. In April, he said the company had experienced “a couple of snags in their paperwork,” but that he was confident that everything was on track for an announcement. In June, McCall reiterated his hopes for a ribbon cutting.

And now — almost five months later — McCall said he is still hold out hope that the plant  and the badly needed jobs will become a reality. McCall said recently that the company would initially create 25 jobs, with 200 expected to be employed within a few years.

Representatives of Century Lumber and Land, LLC, a Florida limited liability corporation founded in December, 2008, have said they intend to purchase and rehabilitate the facility, but they have declined to provide further details.

The 38 acre property was last sold in early 2006 to DMT Holdings, LLC in Navarre, according to the Escambia County Property Appraiser’s online records. The facility includes five buildings totaling just over 300,000 square feet, according to the property appraiser. The buildings on the property range in age from 11 to 54 years,with the largest 160,150 square foot building constructed in 1972.

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One Response to “Still Hope For Railroad Tie Facility, Jobs For Century”

  1. goforit on August 2nd, 2010 9:07 pm

    Hang in there Mayor.

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