County to seek requests for proposals on industrial site - The Business Review (Albany):

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The county could send out the requestzs by the end ofthe day. The decision comes after commissioners twice delayed making a decisiob on a proposal tospend $14 millionm to buy 808 acres in Bel Aire for a county-ownedx industrial park. Commissioners said Wednesday the county should look for tractsx of land with at least 500 acres and accesw to railand highways. The county says the proposalw are dueJuly 1. County stafg has argued ground is needed to createa shovel-ready industriakl site for large users.
The , funded by the private secto r andlocal government, has said the metrop area hasn’t been able to competw well against other communities when industrial companiesd are seeking large sites with rail something that’s become more common as fuel pricesz have increased. The issue came to the forefront in May when overlookecd the Wichita area in its searcbh for a place to constructa 300,000-square-foot wind turbine Wichita’s lack of large tractes of industrial ground with rail accesx likely kept it on the The plant will, instead, be built in Hutchinsohn and could employ 400 people.
The county’s plan to buy land in Bel Aire came undeer fire as opponents accused commissioners of beingf toonarrowly focused.