We need some of this port action

Captain Rhett Butler

Captain Rhett Butler

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Savannah port has record April as some ships switch from West Coast

The Port of Savannah just had its busiest April on record, according to the Georgia Ports Authority.
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The heavy rail lines run east/west right through our county. Why can't our economic development team come up with a plan for an intermodal inland port, similar to what there is above Chatsworth? Heavy rail brings in the railcars 24/7 and semi-trucks could move products from the inland port to Eastern Alabama and even West Georgia. Imagine the heavy industrial manufacturing opportunities. There's plenty of heavy industrial sites in Rockmart, Rome, Cedartown, etc. We have plenty of land in West Paulding, from Mt Olivet out towards Willow Springs...right along the rail line...and it's only as very short hop over to 278. I'm not sure west Paulding residents will be happy, but cash money in a paper sack works for most politicians.

We have plenty of labor and relatively good weather compared to the far northeast or even upper midwest. This would alleviate traffic by steering trucks away from Savannah, Macon and Atlanta. Then of course there would be truck stops, truck parts, sales, service, motels, restaurants and so forth. As fast as Atlanta is booming, we need more commercial and industrial investment and less residential.

Inland Ports - Georgia Ports Authority

The fastest growing port
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Captain Rhett Butler said:
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Savannah port has record April as some ships switch from West Coast

The Port of Savannah just had its busiest April on record, according to the Georgia Ports Authority.
www.ajc.com www.ajc.com

The heavy rail lines run east/west right through our county. Why can't our economic development team come up with a plan for an intermodal inland port, similar to what there is above Chatsworth? Heavy rail brings in the railcars 24/7 and semi-trucks could move products from the inland port to Eastern Alabama and even West Georgia. Imagine the heavy industrial manufacturing opportunities. There's plenty of heavy industrial sites in Rockmart, Rome, Cedartown, etc. We have plenty of land in West Paulding, from Mt Olivet out towards Willow Springs...right along the rail line...and it's only as very short hop over to 278. I'm not sure west Paulding residents will be happy, but cash money in a paper sack works for most politicians.

We have plenty of labor and relatively good weather compared to the far northeast or even upper midwest. This would alleviate traffic by steering trucks away from Savannah, Macon and Atlanta. Then of course there would be truck stops, truck parts, sales, service, motels, restaurants and so forth. As fast as Atlanta is booming, we need more commercial and industrial investment and less residential.

Inland Ports - Georgia Ports Authority

The fastest growing port
gaports.com
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They have one in Clarkdale, and the only thing it brought was a bunch of foreign truckers that can barely drive a car, much less a truck,,, and a ton of excess traffic on Hwy-92 up to Red Top. No restraunts, no mechanics and no truck stops,,, just pass tru traffic.
 
Yeah Clarkdale (Cobb County) beat Paulding to the punch on that one. They are expanding the yard even as we speak. With it being so close to the county line I doubt they would build a new facility that close. Paulding is a good location for manufacturing if they would utilize the rails and widen 92 (which is in the process towards Douglasville). The county needs easy access to 75 and 20 to be viable. The county has never been good at drawing business. The good ole boys built/developed houses not industrial plants.
 
Captain Rhett Butler said:
We need commercial/industrial development...period. Our tax base is way too dependent on residential. Our school taxes keep going up and there's no end in sight. We're full, but the builders keep on building.
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Age old problem, discussed many times at the other site. Unless all the homes in a bedroom community are in the high six digits or low seven digits you will have problems. Evert time a house is built in this county, someone incurrs a $16k tax bill for schooling those children. If the average tax bill is $1500, you can eastly see the impending problem. To have more tax revenue without the rise in scholl costs, you need busineses in the county. To get the business you must offer tax incentives which negates that advantage for 5 to 10 years depending on the deal struck by county managers. Be that as it may, the county needs big business, ideally the kind that brings mega bucks into the county in the form of wages and taxbase. With that comes big problems in the form of noise and air pollution and heavier traffic.
Probably the best thing we could get is a Mall. In the long term we would benefit from the tax base, the sales tax and any SPLOST since we could draw from Cobb, Harrelson, Polk and Douglas counties. Next would be a major manufacturing plant along the rail corridors,,, but major changes almost always bring major problems to deal with and the question is, Do we have the county management to tackle those problems?
 
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