VW Site Has Room for Suppliers

With work started at the 1,600 acre Enterprise South industrial park site where Volkswagen will build.  Hamilton County Mayor Claude Ramsey said there is also room for suppliers and other businesses. The site of Volkswagen's planned $1 billion assembly plant, marketed as a TVA megasite, near Interstate 75 and was once the grounds of a former Army ammunition plant. Mayor Ramsey said the first thing the city will do is work with Volkswagen on the location of suppliers, and then will market it to others. Ramsey said following Volkswagen's announcement that he is aware of about 270 acres not involved with the assembly plant or its suppliers. Volkswagen of America CEO Stefan Jacoby declined comment about the size of the assembly plant.