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Mayor: Still Hope For New Lumber Industry
January 28, 2011
Things have been pretty quiet around the old Alger Sullivan Lumber Company property in Century since a ribbon cutting back in October for a group of new businesses including Century Lumber and Land. According to the town’s mayor, financing delays have stalled a real opening date.
But there’s still hope that Century Lumber and Land will bring new jobs to the Century area, according to Mayor Freddie McCall. He said that, as of early this week, the company is about 97-percent complete with their financing arrangements.
Century Lumber and Land unofficially announced a venture with several other companies at a September 2 meeting of the Century Chamber of Commerce. Century Lumber and Land Manager Jim Craft said at that meeting that the operations would eventually employee 300 to 500 people within a 36 to 42 month period.
Pictured top: A group hoping to apply for a job gathered during the ribbon cutting for Century Lumber and Land last October. Pictured below: The old Alger Sullivan Lumber Company, and the planned future home of Century Lumber and Land, sits idle this week. NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
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4 Responses to “Mayor: Still Hope For New Lumber Industry”
You can do some things wrong without doing everything wrong. I believe it was the manner of the sale of securities which bothered Alabama
I thought it to be reported by Escambia.com in a news article some time back that the SEC was looking into this group. For possible securities violations. Is that correct??
more paid workers can pay for cost of lost gas. for all we know it may be only as much as a blown out pilot light, still a gas leak but not all that dangerous or expensive
That should be least of the towns worries right now, what about that gas leak?? But hey! What do i know?