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The Greeneville Sun Benchmarks Edition
GreenevilleSun.com
Saturday, March 12, 2022
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Construction is underway on the new location for Big G Express trucking company, which intends to relocate its operations currently based in Hamblen County to Mosheim when the facility is ready.
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A billboard for Big G Express is clearly visible along 11E next to the site where the trucking company’s new facility is being built in Mosheim.
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Tennessee. “We’re looking forward to getting in there and meeting everybody, and I hope we can attract some new employees and grow in the area,” he said. For more information about Big G, visit www.biggexpress.com.
STAFF WRITER Multiple industry expansions, representing $16.5 million in local investment and more than 350 jobs retained in Greene County, are supported through PILOT tax abatement programs approved last year. Construction is underway in Mosheim for a new facility for Shelbyville-based Big G Express’s East Tennessee trucking operations, an expansion to Premium Waters’ local facility started Premium Waters’ local facility was expanded by more than 50,000 square feet in 2021. and was completed in 2021 and an expansion to Parkway BIG G EXPRESS company continues to pay Products’ local operations off the interstate and close to property tax on the pre-exannounced in January is industries, so it was a great Big G intends to relocate also being supported with a fit for us.” pansion value. its Hamblen County operaPILOT. Thompson said all em“The value is that this is tions to Greene County when PILOT, or payment in lieu in exchange for the creation the new Mosheim facility is ployees currently based in of taxes, programs support of additional jobs including ready, and company PresiRussellville will be offered companies in expanding construction, electricity and dent and CEO Greg Thomp- the opportunity to transfer, operations locally as they any supplies impacted by the son said the location is ideal plus the expansion will create allow a delay on having to expansion,” Greene County new jobs with Big G. for multiple reasons. pay the increased property Partnership President Jeff “We plan to close that “As we have grown, we tax value. Instead, under a Taylor explained in May, location in Russellville down have kind of outgrown PILOT, the Industrial Devel- when the PILOTs for Big and relocate everybody up our place down the road the road. I anticipate everyin Russellville, so we were opment Board of Greeneville G and Premium Waters were approved. “Not every looking for a larger footprint body moving, and we’ve got and Greene County takes community has a PILOT when we found that location more than enough room to ownership of the expansion program, and this gives us in Greene County,” Thompor equipment purchased grow at that location, so we’ll through the PILOT program an advantage when it comes son said. “We’ve got a lot of definitely be looking to hire and leases it to the company to recruiting and retaining some additional employees,” employees in that general jobs.” for seven years, while the he said. area anyway, and it’s not far
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Construction on the $8.5 million project began in October, and Thompson said it is on track to finish for Big G to relocate this summer despite recent weather-related delays. “We’ve had some setbacks with the weather, but other than that it’s progressing well,” Thompson said. “The lot is paved, and the building is up and has a roof on it, so we’re moving right along, and we anticipate by mid- to late-summer we’ll be moving in.” Thompson said he is excited for Big G to grow in East
The expansion at Premium Waters, which adds storage for the private label water bottle company to keep customer orders until they are ready to be picked up or delivered, started in February and was completed in December. Greeneville Plant Manager Don Myers said the addition of 53,000 square feet makes the company’s shipping process much more efficient. “Before we had the space here to hold it, a lot of our products would go on a truck, we’d have to drive it maybe half a mile to a warehouse and unload it, and then load it again when the customer comes to pick it up,” Myers explained. “This space allows us to store items SEE PILOT ON PAGE 3A
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