Bass Pro Shops, Leading LakePoint Anchor, to Open in 2014

An initial 200 jobs will result and an additional 300 adjacent acres will be developed as a nature park at the huge Emerson sports complex near Cartersville in Bartow County.

Bass Pro Shops is coming to Bartow County with a 100,000-square-foot store slated to open in 2014. The Bass Pro Shops Outpost store in Emerson will be the leading anchor of LakePoint Sporting Community & Town Center, according to the retailer. The Bartow County Development Authority approved Thursday a memorandum of understanding outlining details of the agreement, which includes the relocation of the intersection at GA Highway 293 and Old Allatoona Road, The Daily Tribune News reported. "The memorandum provides that Bass Pro is purchasing property and LakePoint is making some committents in terms of infrastructure that has to be put in place,” County Attorney Boyd Pettit told the newspaper. "[Commissioner Clarence Brown] along with …

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voestalpine Breaks Ground on Auto Parts Plant in Cartersville

The anchor tenant of industrial park Highland 75 is expected to bring 220 manufacturing and some administrative jobs to Bartow County.

New Life, New Tenant for Historic Cartersville Building

Darrah Photography is the first to move into the old Nantucket plant at 100 Cook Street, which is being renovated for multiple uses by John Lewis and Dean Lewis, who are not related.

Darrah Photo is the first tenant in a historic Cartersville building being renovated for shops, loft apartments and maybe a restaurant. "[Developer] John [Lewis] had wanted us to be a tenant of his for years, and he just never had a building that would work for us," said Kaysi Darrah. "When he purchased this huge shell, he said, 'I know I've got it....'" Built in 1941 and reportedly once the largest chenille plant in the world, according to Lewis of John S. Lewis Property Management, the old Nantucket building at 100 Cook Street is zoned for residential, commercial, retail and warehouse uses. He and development partner Dean Lewis, father of Bartow County sole commissioner candidate Tracy Lewis and former state rep and current State …

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LakePoint Breaks Ground: Are You Excited?

LakePoint Sporting Community & Town Center in Emerson is set to be "the premier sports tournament vacation destination" in the U.S. surrounded by hotels, restaurants and entertainment venues, developers say.

One of the largest construction projects in the country, LakePoint Sporting Community & Town Center broke ground on what developers say will be "the premier sports tournament vacation destination in the United States." The more than 1,200-acre development just outside Cartersville in Emerson will feature state-of-the-art venues for more than 20 of America’s favorite sports and a mixed-use development consisting of commercial, retail and entertainment options. LakePoint is set to stimulate the economy through job creation and tourism dollars, and with the help of some of the biggest names in professional sports, including former Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox, current Braves manager Fredi González and Kansas City Royals manage Ned Yost. …

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Visionary Plans Mini America Theme Park at LakePoint

Eric de Groot had the idea for a miniature educational theme park 10 years ago, and now envisions it at LakePoint Sporting Community & Town Center near Cartersville in Bartow County.

Eric de Groot can be called many things, a humanitarian, visionary, even dreamer. All of those attributes seem to fit as one of his dreams moved closer to reality with LakePoint's groundbreaking. His plans are for Mini America, a miniature educational theme park at LakePoint Sporting Community & Town Center just outside Cartersville in Emerson, which is expected to be the "biggest thing Bartow [County] has ever seen." de Groot, 54, a longtime Georgia resident and native of Amsterdam, Holland, was inspired by a miniature theme park in the Netherlands called Madurodam, a little walkable city of Holland history. "If America didn't exist the world would be totally different," he said. The Mini America concept was officially commended by the …

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LakePoint Groundbreaking Set for Thursday

One of the largest construction projects in Georgia, developers say LakePoint Sporting Community & Town Center in Bartow County will create up to 26,000 jobs when complete.

A groundbreaking ceremony for "the biggest thing Bartow has ever seen" and one of Georgia's largest construction projects—LakePoint Sporting Community & Town Center—is set for Thursday at the construction site outside Cartersville in Emerson. LakePoint Development partners—Atlanta Braves former manager Bobby Cox and current manager Fredi González and Kansas City Royals manager Ned Yost—are set to join Gov. Nathan Deal to announce "one of the world’s largest and most unique amateur sports complexes," according to the press release. The more than 1,200-acre development will feature state-of-the-art venues for more than 20 of America’s favorite sports, and 5 million square feet of mixed-use development consisting of commercial, retail and …

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voestalpine Production Slated to Begin Next Year

The Cartersville manufacturing facility is the first step in the company's comprehensive globalization strategy that includes new plants in China and Germany.

voestalpine's new manufacturing facility set for Highland 75 Industrial Park in Cartersville, which was announced less than two weeks ago, is slated to begin production by the middle of next year, company leaders said in a statement. The $62 million plant in Bartow County—which company reps describe as "in the center of a cluster of automobile factories"—will manufacture and assemble stamped-metal components, transmission and power train parts. "Cartersville is centrally located in a southern 'automotive cluster' in close proximity to our customers," said Herbert Eibensteiner, voestalpine Management Board member and Metal Forming Division head. "Once the site has been fully developed, we will have 220 employees." It's the company's first …

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Wake Park Closes on Land at LakePoint

Construction of Terminus Wake Park at LakePoint Sporting Community & Town Center is set to begin this fall, and the opening is expected in the spring.

Wake Park Atlanta, which in January announced plans to open a cable wakeboard park at LakePoint Sporting Community & Town Center in Bartow County, closed this week on almost 20 acres of land. Developers say the innovative, multi-lake design at Terminus Wake Park will accommodate wake boarders of all skill levels. "The park’s signature will be an elaborate series of rails and obstacles," Austin Singleton, one of the principals with Terminus, said in a press release. "Many of the obstacles at the park will not be available anywhere else in the United States and some of the custom obstacles will be the first of their kind in the world." Terminus will encompass more than 17 acres of the sports development just outside Cartersville. "Terminus …

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Bartow Gives Land, Incentives for voestalpine

The manufacturer set to build a plant in Highland 75 near Cartersville gets property tax abatements, help securing rail service or a transfer station, and "Voestalpine Parkway."

For a $62 million capital investment and 220 full-time jobs, Bartow County agreed to give newcomer voestalpine land and tax breaks, according to a memorandum of understanding signed last week by Commissioner Clarence Brown. voestalpine Stamptee, a division of the Austrian-based, international metal-working company, agreed to build in Highland 75 near Cartersville an up to 200,000-square-foot factory on 32 acres for the manufacturing and assembly of certain stamped-metal components, transmission and power train parts. The facility could be operational by July 2013, Rome News-Tribune reported. It could also draw at least two other companies looking to build plants in close proximity to voestalpine's new Bartow County site, Brown told the …

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Cleve

2:58 pm on Friday, August 24, 2012

I assume you are responding to me Tom S. I fuss becasue there are no jobs and will keep on until my wife who has two degrees now can get a job. Ignorance is bliss sir. You hurl insults and take away from the conversation. That is ignorance. Learn to read Tom... No duh people who do not work do not pay taxes. Is that what this article is about or even what I said? Who said the county had to do …   more ›

How to Apply for voestalpine Jobs

The Georgia Department of Labor Career Center in Cartersville is accepting resumes for the company expected to bring a new manufacturing facility and 220 jobs to Bartow County.

voestalpine, set to be the anchor tenant of industrial park Highland 75, is expected to bring manufacturing and some administrative jobs to Bartow County. While officials don't yet know when the jobs will come available, the Georgia Department of Labor's Cartersville Career Center is now accepting resumes for voestalpine Metal Forming positions, a spokesman said. Gov. Nathan Deal yesterday announced the automotive industry supplier's auto body parts unit would invest $62 million to build a manufacturing facility in Cartersville, the first of its kind in the Southeast. Groundbreaking is anticipated early in the fall. voestalpine's Metal Forming Division is a leading global provider of high-quality metal processing solutions, particularly …

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