County hopes to draw jobs with spec building at industrial park

A new spec building in the Industrial Park is being built with hopes of creating new jobs.

County Administrator Jeff Mayo said the county currently doesn’t have available industrial space should a company be looking to move into Neshoba County.

“It is going to be about 7,000 square feet,” Mayo said. “It will be located between the two Taylor Machine Works buildings.”

In last week’s meeting of the Board of Supervisors, the county hired Pritchard Engineering to do site planning and survey work at the site. PryorMorrow was hired for the architectural and engineering services.

Mayo said there was no timeline for completion. The building will be a prefab metal building.

The county-owned the old Hunter Engineering building in Union but sold it to Allied Locke, which already had a manufacturing facility there in the old Brook Manufacturing building.

“We don’t have a buyer yet,” Mayo said. “But hopefully someone will be interested.”