Tupelo, Miss., Selected Instead Of Enterprise South
posted February 26, 2007
Toyota has chosen Mississippi, - instead of Chattanooga's Enterprise South or a Marion, Ark., site - for a new auto plant, a Japanese newspaper reported Monday.
Sources said the office of Gov. Phil Bredesen was notified earlier Monday that the Chattanooga site was not chosen.
City, county and Chamber officials are to hold a press conference at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Development Resource Center to respond to Toyota's decision.
Those due to take part are Matt Kisber, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development; Mayor Ron Littlefield, County Mayor Claude Ramsey and
The report was in Nikkei, a leading Japanese business newspaper.
It said the plant would cost $829 million and produce Toyota Highlanders.
An official announcement is expected Tuesday. The governor of Mississippi promised a major economic development announcement.
The site is reportedly in Tupelo, Miss.
The plant, which would be ready by 2009, would produce 150,000 vehicles annually.
Nissan North America opened a $1.4 billion plant in Canton, Miss., in May 2003, and this would be the state's second auto plant.
The Memphis Commercial Appeal said Chattanooga and Marion were the front runners, but "air quality problems in and around Marion and Chattanooga opened the door for Tupelo, which made a late push."
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