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Ribbon Cutting For Century Lumber, New Jobs Delayed
September 18, 2010
It will be at least another four weeks before Century Lumber and Land, LLC cuts the ribbon on the old Alger-Sullivan building in Century and official announces new jobs.
The ribbon cutting had been tentatively set for September 18, but now that date has been delayed until October 16.
Century Lumber and Land, LLC plans to join Railmark Holdings and Milton Timber to announce a total of five ventures slated for Century.
The companies will, over a course of time, be in the business of:
- treating railroad crossties
- dry kiln treating domestic lumber for the building industry
- building and selling lumber kilns
- repairing freight railcars, railroad track and maintenance
- processing and marketing Paulownia trees as biomass fuel and wood products
Century Lumber and Land unofficially announced the ventures at a September 2 meeting of the Century Chamber of Commerce. Century Lumber and Land Manager Jim Craft (pictured) said at that meeting that the operations would eventually employee 300 to 500 people within a 36 to 42 month period.
For more information, read the story about the announcement from September 3 — click here.
Pictured: Century Lumber and Land Manager Jim Craft. NorthEscambia.com file photo, click to enlarge.
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6 Responses to “Ribbon Cutting For Century Lumber, New Jobs Delayed”
CW and citizen, you are both right about tourism over good paying industrial jobs in Florida……….There are industries in Alabama and Georgia now paying fair wages to people that could have been in northwest Florida. I’ve mentioned this before, but got a response of …..” cotton,corn,peanuts,soy beans,etc.,” like this is being compared to good paying jobs for many people in our area. Farming is good for our state, but some good paying industrial and manufacturing jobs would be better than tourism.
I know this tune, i have heard it before. In the past centry has tried this, at the same location . Not sure why it didnt happen then . I hate to be the “glass is half empty” guy , but i’ll belive it when i see it.
Citizen, I agree. It seems most of Florida cares more about tourism than it does good paying permanent jobs for the people that were born and raised there. It’s sad, and it seems to be happening in Baldwin County too.
I’m glad to see Century cont’ to work on getting big business in their town. I know some don’t like Freddie, but at least he’s going out trying to get more jobs up there. I wish I could say the same for Pensacola. It seems that all they ever want is some thing they can put their name on to be remembered. If they would start working on some thing other than Tourism and start getting some year round employment, it may help just a little. Until that happens, all you’ll see is business owners trying to file claims and sue folks just to keep their head above water. The Powers to be need to get businesses in like the town of Century has. We have a lot of vacant buildings/property just sitting there. As Rick Scott says, “let’s get to work”.
I hope the delay isn’t the result of our county or state government and all the red tape BS they are forcing on everyone.
Remember the movie “Groundhog Day?”