Silver Eagle Bus Manufacturing lands in Gallatin | tennessean.com | The Tennessean
It is great to see a city such as Gallatin get the new bus manufacturing plant. Is Kingsport and Sullivan County doing anything to bring new jobs to East Tennessee?
Long-term plans to create more than 500 jobs
Silver Eagle reviewed sites in middle and western Tennessee as well as Ohio, Michigan, Alabama, and Mississippi and negotiated with a handful of communities from a short list over the past year before settling on Gallatin.
There were two factors Silver Eagle used to whittle down its short list to a Gallatin focus, Craig Hanloh said. The proactive efforts of Clay Walker, executive director of Gallatin’s Economic Development Agency, was one of those.
“Two things: location and Clay Walker working with us,” Hanloh said. “He’s been very proactive since we had the first discussion. … The cooperation with the city of Gallatin has been outstanding.
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