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industrial park
recommended
After a six-month study, Clarke County’s Economic Development Research Committee has recommended the county create its own industrial park.
The county planning commission received the recommendation last week and authorized the local Planning District to notify the state of the county’s intent to seek a Community Development Block Grant to plan the acquisition of an industrial site. The declaration does not commit the county to the project which first must be approved by the board of supervisors.
Like communities all across the country, Clarke is interested in attracting clean industry to the county to help boost the local tax base.
Bridge ‘won’t fall,’
officials say
Plans are in the works to replace the deteriorating bridge which carries east-bound traffic on Route 7 across the Shenandoah River in Clarke County.
The 1939-vintage concrete and steel truss bridge is dying before its time, partly because of the corrosive chemicals used to melt snow and ice. Despite its crumbling condition, highway officials say it is safe to travel on. “It won’t fall down,” said Highway Inspector Wayne Cullers.
Cullers and fellow bridge inspectors estimate the bridge has a useful life span of another three or four years. Advertisements are scheduled to be sought in the summer of 1987 for construction of a new bridge on the same site. The new bridge is expected to cost $4.5 million.
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