Oconee County Development Authority Considering Lease For Park

A subcommittee of the Oconee County Industrial Development Authority is meeting Monday to discuss how to respond to expressions of interest from at least three companies in the county’s Gateway Technology Business Park on SR 316 on the southern edge of Bogart.

J.R. Charles, Oconee County Economic Development director, told the IDA members at their regular meeting last month of the “prospect activity” regarding Gateway by three companies he identified only by code name.

The subcommittee met in a minimally publicized meeting on Oct. 31 to discuss those prospects, and that same group is scheduled to meet again tomorrow at 3 p.m. at the Chamber of Commerce Office, 55 Nancy Drive in Watkinsville.

Charles told the IDA that last month that two of the companies were interested in the possibility of leasing a building that was constructed by the IDA.

The IDA itself is to hold its regular meeting at 4 p.m. tomorrow, also at the offices of the Chamber of Commerce.

For details of this story with an embedded video of the October 9 meeting of the IDA, go to Oconee County Observations.

Pictured: Waller, Charles, Perkins And Elder (L-R)