[CPEO-BIF] John Sevier Steam Plant site, Rogersville, Tennessee

[Lenny Siegel]

Hawkins hopes to work with TVA to develop old steam plant property

by JEFF BOBO 
Kingsport Times News (TN)
August 28, 2017 

ROGERSVILLE — Much like it did with the Phipps Bend Industrial Park 35 years ago, Hawkins County hopes to work with the Tennessee Valley Authority to prepare the retired John Sevier Steam Plant site for potential industrial development.

Hawkins County Industrial Development Board Chairman Larry Elkins told the IDB Thursday he recently met with the TVA and some of its site development consultants on the property just south of Rogersville, which until earlier this year was home to the old steam plant facility.

The coal burning plant was constructed in 1956 and produced electricity until the new gas plant next door went online in 2012.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.timesnews.net/Business/2017/08/28/Hawkins-hopes-to-work-with-TVA-to-develop-old-steam-plant-property.html?ci=stream&lp=1&p=1

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