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A TENNESSEE TRIFECTA versity. The college partners with new good access to interstate Koyo Corporation of USA is constructing a new 88,000-squareand established businesses to provide I-26, and tenants enjoy foot manufacturing facility in the Washington County Industrial both technical and interpersonal the benefits of being Park to produce tapered roller bearings primarily for the automotive industry. skills training for workforce develop- located within a Foreignment and organization development. Trade Zone. Meanwhile, the Tennessee TechnolJohnson City has two ogy Center transforms potential excellent manufacturing employees into skilled workers. buildings available for Two new Japanese companies, immediate occupancy. Koyo and Nakatetsu, are building The Superior Industries new plants in the Washington County Indus- Nakatetsu Machining Technologies is establishing its first U.S. plant building has 295,557 square feet and in a new 72,000-square-foot facility adjacent to the Koyo facility trial Park. The county is in the Washington County Industrial Park. is in excellent condition. It sits on currently in negotiation over 38 acres and is priced at $4.5 for land adjacent to the million. The Snap-on Tools building park that will provide is 64,550 square feet on 8.5 acres, immediate sites for sevand is priced at $1.2 million; it is eral new companies. located 2.2 miles from Interstate 26. The park is located on a Additional information on these four-lane highway with buildings as well as other available property can be found online at www.jcedb.org. OPEN SKIES, OPEN LAND Through his third-floor office window, Video Gaming Technology CEO Jon Yarbrough watches as a small corporate plane touches down on the airport runway and taxis to the hangar below; in just a minute or two, several businesspeople disembark and jump into a rental car that whisks them away. Now, that’s the way to travel. Video Gaming Technologies, with operations in Sacramento, CA, Virginia, Oklahoma, and South Carolina, claimed the number one spot on the Inc. 500 list in 2005. Yarbrough chose the 1,700-acre Smyrna Airport Business Park for his company’s national corporate headquarters because of its central U.S. location and proximity to business air travel. The park has excellent road access, two runways and an adjacent golf course—great amenities to A S P E C I A L A D V E RT I S I N G S E C T I O N O F B U S I N E S S FA C I L I T I E S #1902 at www.BusinessFacilities.com 24 NOVEMBER 2007 PHOTO CREDITS: JOHNSON CITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD http://www.jcedb.org http://www.jcedb.org http://www.BusinessFacilities.com http://www.jcedb.org http://www.BusinessFacilities.com

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