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DEL.ICIO.USPerdue: It might be time to break up the Pooler site
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Gov. Sonny Perdue could be signaling a major change in economic development strategy.
He says it might be time to think about breaking up the Pooler site — a 1,500-acre swath at the intersections of interstates 95 and 16, once earmarked for a Daimler/Chrysler plant.
The governor’s musings made the front page in Sunday editions of the Savannah Morning News.
“How long do we wait for that perfect guy or gal to come along and take the whole site?” Perdue asked.
In October 2002, as his re-election was approaching, Gov. Roy Barnes announced that Daimler would build a $750 million van plant on the location. The company withdrew its plans less than a year later.
Earlier this year, the Savannah newspaper reported, “a study commissioned by the Georgia Department of Economic Development ranked the Pooler mega site as a leader among 20 similar locations in an 11-state Southeast region.”
On a trade mission to Europe this summer, marketing the plot of land was one of Perdue’s prime objectives.
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