2. Agenda
• 10:00am – Depart for bus tour
• 11:30am – Arrive at 6th Street Park/food trucks/lunch
• 1:00pm – Depart back to UGA-Griffin campus

4. Major Employers
• WellStar Spalding Regional Medical Center - hospital
• 1888 Mills - textiles
• AEP Industries, Inc. – packaging film
• Caterpillar, Inc. – diesel and gas generators
• Norcom – school supplies
• Supreme Corp. – truck bodies and trailers

5. Industrial Recent Announcements (2013-
current)
• Kirby Risk Corporations (electric wiring harness) -
$2,000,000 + 50 jobs
• Norcom, Inc. (wire notebook manufacturer) - $7,000,000
+ 60 jobs
• 1888 Mills (textile) – 500,000SF facility + 100 jobs
• Otsuka Chemical Co., Ltd. (brake manufacturer) 32 jobs
• Toppan Printing Co. (packaging manufacturer) - $100m +
80 jobs
• Marukan - $13,000,000 + 15 jobs
• Dollar General (distribution center) - $85m + 500 jobs

6. Economic Development Partners
• City of Griffin
• Spalding County
• Griffin Housing Authority
• Griffin-Spalding Development Authority
• Griffin-Spalding Land Bank Authority
• City of Griffin Downtown Development Authority
• Georgia Department of Community Affairs
• Georgia Department of Economic Development
• Electric Cities of Georgia (ECG)

7. Community Investments
• Substandard Blight Elimination
• College & Career Academy renovation
• Meriwether Homes Redevelopment
• Historic City Hall Adaptive Reuse
• Film Academy
• New Griffin-Spalding Airport
• New Fire Station #1
• Solomon Park development
• LCI – Downtown
• Aquatic Center construction
• Pickle Ball construction
• Rosenwald School adaptive reuse

10. Sun City Peachtree (Del Webb community)

12. 2040 Forecasts
Population and Employment
• Population
• 66,000 in 2010
• 114,000 by 2040
• 73% growth
• Employment
• 21,000 in 2010
• 37,000 by 2040
• 76% growth

13. Population Growth
64,165
2015
67,158
2020

14. Housing Cost (median)
$825 $107,000

15. Median Household Income
$39,510/$58,733
2015
$45,200/$67,757
2020

16. Unemployment Rate
7.1%/5.4%
03/2016
12.1%
03/2016
Residential Vacancy Rate

17. Targeted Industries

18. Targeted Development
• Workforce housing +
storefronts
• Artisan manufacturing &
marketplace
• Small office development
• Retail development (SR16
& SR19/US41)
• Athletic facilities (airport
property?)

20. GAP ANALYSIS (retail trade area)
10 mile radius
GAP Potential SF # of Retailers
Sporting goods 9,937,779$ 108,905.45 1
Grocery store 34,948,165$ 43,467.87 1.74
Electronic & Appliances 13,876,266$ 31,367.52 1.57
Food services and drinking places 15,571,171$ 38,768.22 3.88
General merchandise store 44,358,339$ 56,871.17 3.79

21. Incentives
• Enterprise Zone (property abatement)
• Bond financing (GSDA; DDA)
• Revolving Loan Fund
• Façade grants
• Tax Incremental Financing (two districts)
• Opportunity Zones
• Tax Credits (Historic Tax Credits; NMTC;
LIHTC)

22. Prime Properties
• Existing Griffin-Spalding Airport (2022)
• Heath Towers
• Griffin Hotel
• Best Manufacturing
• Former mill adjacent to UGA
• Dundee Mill (East Griffin)
• Lexington Square
• Thomaston Mill
• Lincoln Road property
• Downtown Storefronts
• Williamson Road property
• North Griffin Shopping Corridor
• Booker/Scales Street properties

24. http://x.lnimg.com/attachments/DF4A59ED-BB14-44B3-8E71-9D0FD39375C9.pdf
- 114,000 SF Retail
- 297,000 SF Office / Medical
- 13.4 Acre Assisted Living Site
- 7.1 Acre Self Storage Site
- 53 Acres of Open Space