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Lake City picked for PlanET demonstration project

Posted at 4:17 pm August 14, 2013
By Oak Ridge Today Staff Leave a Comment

Information from WYSH Radio

It has already been a banner week for Lake City.

On Monday, the Anderson County Commission’s Operations Committee voted to recommend purchasing the old Bank of America building in Lake City for $100,000 using part of the proceeds of the pending sale of county-owned land to the Hollingsworth Company for $303,000. The remaining $203,000 would be used as seed money for the start-up Anderson County Economic Development Fund. Supporters of the bank building purchase foresee using it as the new home of Coal Miners’ Museum as well as for storage and use as a satellite office for some county government entities.

Now, PlanET, a regional partnership of East Tennessee communities in Anderson, Blount, Knox, Loudon, and Union counties, has selected Lake City as one of its so-called Demonstration Project sites. The program will be funded through the Plan East Tennessee Grant and leverage in-kind services from the East Tennessee Community Design Center, or ETCDC, and the University of Tennessee School of Agriculture. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Government, Top Stories Tagged With: Anderson County Commission, Anderson County Economic Development Fund, Bank of America, Coal Miner’s Museum, Demonstration Project, East Tennessee Community Design Center, ETCDC, Hollingsworth Company, Lake City, Main Street, Main Street Project, Operations Committee, Plan East Tennessee Grant, PlanEt, School of Agriculture, School of Architecture, Tim Isbel, University of Tennessee, UT

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