Green Township Supervisor Jim Chapman confirmed there’s a particular assembly scheduled Monday when the applicant — which he wouldn’t verify as Gotion however mentioned is a Chinese battery producer — will go earlier than Green Township, Big Rapids Township and Mecosta County to use for the tax break. The applicant shall be on the assembly. He declined to reveal different particulars.
“We’ve been working hard not to release any other information,” Chapman mentioned.
Paul Bullock, Mecosta County controller/administrator, mentioned in an announcement:
“In conjunction with our partners at Big Rapids Charter Township, Green Charter Township, MCDC, The Right Place, and MEDC, we’re actively working to make this extraordinary project a reality for Big Rapids. … We look forward to sharing more about this once-in-a-century opportunity for Big Rapids area in the coming days.”
Michigan electrical utility Consumers Energy Co., which distributes electrical energy in Mecosta County and was permitted lower than a yr in the past to offer a particular financial growth charge to very giant companies, additionally confirmed a significant challenge is within the works.
“We are close to a potential partnership and transformation opportunity in the advanced manufacturing field in Big Rapids,” Consumers CEO Garrick Rochow mentioned. “As transformations of the automotive and other energy-intensive industries continue, we’re enabling the state’s manufacturing infrastructure to adapt, grow and thrive.”
The website being thought-about for the battery plant is a shovel-ready parcel on the intersection of 18 Mile Road and 220th Avenue, which is partly in Green Township and partly in Big Rapids Township. The Big Rapids Township Airport Industrial Park is on the south aspect of the highway, and the Green Township portion of the location is already zoned industrial.
“A site in the Big Rapids area that for the past 25 years has been assembled, developed and marketed for industrial development is being considered by one of the 10 largest advanced battery manufacturers in the world for a new battery production facility,” Randy Thelen, CEO of The Right Place, a regional financial growth group in Grand Rapids, mentioned in an announcement. “The community has been prepared for an opportunity like this to materialize to utilize the infrastructure, airport, access to freeways and locally trained talent pool.”
He mentioned “all parties involved understand there are still numerous processes and steps to be taken before this project becomes a certainty. We remain hopeful to announce more details soon on this project that would position the region at the center of West Michigan’s growing mobility and EV sector.”
Attempts to succeed in Gotion for touch upon Wednesday weren’t profitable.
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