KIA Plant In West Point Georgia Not Wanted By All
As with anything in this world, the new KIA Plant in West Point, Georgia that we have followed so closely has been approved by the state, but some local residents are unhappy with the new plant being placed in their neighborhood. I can understand as living in a rural area is important to folks, and their quiet location will be disturbed.
However, this is not going to change the outcome, and the folks there will most likely get fair market or higher for their homes as other homeowners or developers will want to purchase the property to provide housing and commercial opportunities to the community as it grows.
A standing-room-only crowd packed the Gray Hill Community Center Friday evening seeking answers to questions that have arisen since Kia’s March 13 announcement to build a $1.2 billion automobile manufacturing and assembly center on Webb Road near I-85.
Commission Chairman Tim Duffey and Commissioner Ken Smith fielded questions ranging from whether property taxes would be going up for Gray Hill residents, to where the new interchange would be built on the Interstate, whether they could be annexed by the city of West Point and even if new development could cause their wells to run dry.
Almost everyone there shared a common concern that the way of life they’d known for a long time was about to change and to change in a big way.
Gabbettville Road resident Jim Gilmore said that the Kia announcement had been widely treated as good news but that there was another side to that story and “We haven’t been heard from yet.”
Gilmore said he’d left such crowded places as Houston and Atlanta in search of a place that offered the nice, quiet way of life that can be found in the Gabbettville community today. With the Kia plant coming that way of living is going to change. In search of what those changes could be, Gilmore said he’d gotten on the phone and called the Georgia Department of Transportation in Atlanta. He said that the people he talked to had been very nice and did their best to answer the questions he asked. via the Valley Times.
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Comment by Pamela Woods on 6 December 2007:
I do know it is always some kind of nuisance to people who like living in the rural areas away from the drudgery of big city living. What must be understood by them though is that growth is a good thing and that they should stay positive because if no change comes the little rural areas we live in could dry up financially and in other ways causing havoc on the poor who live in those areas as well as the other people.
Comment by Bud C on 6 March 2009:
No, I do not like it either. Growth is good, I agree. However there is a time and a place. Now is not the time nor the place. That’s I’ll I have to say. And nothing is drying up, give me a break.