It’s looking more and more as though Limestone County will be the home of the first U.S. Volkswagen plant in 20 years, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
The Wall Street Journal story links to the Web site SouthernAutoCorridor.com, which quotes an “anonymous yet reliable source” that Volkswagen will choose Limestone County. According to the site, the source is the same person who tipped them off about Kia picking West Point, Ga., for its first North American assembly plant and Hyundai choosing Montgomery for its first plant.
The News Courier reported in Wednesday’s edition about numerous Alabama Department of Transportation vehicles and surveyors converged in and around a several-thousand-acre site bordered by Powell Road and Old Highway 20, that was annexed into Huntsville in recent months. The ALDOT employees would only say that they were doing a “corridor study” from the site back to Interstate 565.
ALDOT Divisional Engineer Johnny Harris in Guntersville said that all he knew is that the surveyors were doing studies of a potential industrial site, but he said he didn’t know what industry.
Limestone County Economic Development Association President Tom Hill said he had “no comment” on the reports or the ALDOT activity near Greenbrier.
“At the time of the Kia prediction two years ago, after hearing from our source, even the Atlanta Journal Constitution had no idea the Korean automaker was even looking in Georgia,” stated Southern Auto Corridor.
Both the Kia and Hyundai predictions were correct and SouthernAutoCorridor.com and Southern Business & Development magazine were the first media outlets worldwide to report the sites of both projects.
“While this particular source has been dead-on each time, SouthernAutoCorridor.com did its due diligence and checked out other sources before publishing the Kia and Hyundai predictions,” said the site publisher. “The difference between the Volkswagen site pick and Kia’s and Hyundai’s is that the source informed us during a weekday regarding those two Korean-based assembly plants. This time (the Volkswagen search) we were contacted by our source on a Saturday.”
source: http://www.enewscourier.com/local/local_story_144220114.html
