From what I've read, it looks like they'll average $25K/acrce + 3x structure value. Seems like a pretty fair deal to me.
Ok, explain the Four Oaks uproar on this project. I thought it was more toward Nicro/Kenly. Our was the Four Oaks mayor trying to get it moved to Four Oaks?
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10153724011842815&id=327576612814 Photos of the Intermodal Hub in Ohio
Another controversial angle to a CSX hub in Jesup, Georgia as reported in the online edition of The Bitter Southerner and titled: From Ashes Such As These, What Can Rise?" The story details a small, economically disenfranchised town whose existing CSX hub had planned to build additional and exclusive rail spurs for a company called " Broadhurst Environmental" (oh, the irony!) for the purpose of transporting and storing rail cars filled with CCR, or "coal ash residuals", a damaging, toxic residual that can poison groundwater, and is in fact, a primary component of many "superfund sites" in the US. Not saying that CSX in JoCo has those intentions here, but it's something that they do when public opposition is weak, and it passes under the radar, so to speak. Luckily, the good people of Jesup, GA got wind of the project early on, and showed up at the public hearing in force. I do believe that the article is worth a read, IMHO.
http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle...OGjEdWjbpYbag089b0239&t=1468937695&j=74975542 well, its going to Edgecombe County. I hope everyone is happy.
I wonder if it will or its just announced. Until they have the land, its probably going to meet the same opposition there as here.
JoCo blew a chance to add industrial tax revenue to the county to help support all of the schools that are overcrowded because everyone lives in JoCo and works in Wake.
I would guess Rocky Mount will be all over this to get the land etc. The fact that "The Farm" held this up here is sad.
As a life long agrarian, little is as offensive as people claiming to be farmers. Whether you name your business "the farm", or you own several acres, rent them out, and work for the state.
Great news for Rocky Mount. They need this to jump start their declining economy. Happy for them as Rocky Mount used to be a good place to live.
http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle...already-have-land-options-in-rocky-mount.html All property secure in Rocky Mount. 1500 high paying railroad jobs , plus $270 million in construction gone from Selma.
Ya N&O reported the same in yesterday's paper. They got smart and got the land before making any notices about it.
Here's where they are saying the hub will be: https://www.google.com/maps/place/3...m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d36.020085!4d-77.761391
Hell no- we dodged a bullet! Just google " CSX and Jesup, GA" and you'll see the trade off rural Georgia got for a few jobs - contaminated groundwater after CSX built an exclusive rail spur for a company dubiously called "Broadhurst Environmental" to ship and store toxic waste products largely from coal ash residue - all 10,000 tons of it. And nobody knew what they were doing until Jesup's groundwater became contaminated. Meanwhile CSX continues to scour the South for cheap land with townspeople unaware of what they did in Georgia and South Carolina, all the while hyping the "jobs angle". Now they have found a "welcoming home" in rural Edgecomb County where the people are even more hard-up for jobs, but at what cost? Oh, and by the way, in addition to ruining the groundwater in Georgia, their location in Jesup was pretty close to being designated as a "super-fund" site. There was that much toxic waste that they had secretly stored there without telling a soul. Maybe that's why CSX always shows up with their lawyers and "environmentalist" consultants at every public meeting to answer "concerns" - just in case somebody bothers asking them the right questions. Lol. CSX does much more on the down-low than just move goods, and everybody in the rural South should be aware of it.
