TDOT to build road in Manchester Industrial Park

Written by Staff Reports | 27 February 2010

The Tennessee Department of Transportation has accepted an application from Manchester and Coffee County to build an industrial access road into the new Manchester Industrial Park.
The state will assume all costs for construction of the road, contingent on an agreement from local government entities to sign a contract agreeing to reimburse the state if no industry locates in the park within three years.

The Manchester Board of Mayor & Aldermen voted unanimously to authorize Mayor Betty Superstein to sign such a contract earlier this month. Superstein noted that an industry is currently looking at the park.
“If we don’t put the road in there, we won’t get anyone in there,” Alderman Donnie Thomas said.
In a letter to Superstein and Coffee County Mayor David Pennington, TDOT Commissioner Gerald Nicely said that it is his understanding that under the terms of the State Industrial Access Road Program, it will be TDOT’s responsibility to survey, design, obtain environmental permits and construct the roadway. The department will also acquire the necessary right-of-way and coordinate the adjustment of utilities at a 50 percent cost share.