ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Friday, March 29, 1996 TAG: 9603290052
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
DATELINE: PULASKI
SOURCE: NEW RIVER VALLEY BUREAU
Pulaski's Economic Development Department will seek a planning grant of up to $25,000 to study the feasibility of an industrial park in the town.
If the Community Development Block Grant comes through, Economic Development Director Barry Matherly told town officials Wednesday, Pulaski should have a good chance of securing a $750,000 grant next year to create the park.
The question is whether there is suitable land within the town limits for an industrial park. If nothing else, Matherly said, the proposed study would settle that.
If the answer is no, the town could look into a joint industrial park venture with Pulaski County or move on to other projects, he said.
"If we got this, it would lay to rest, once and for all - do we have potential or do we not?" he said.
The Economic Development Department's Executive Committee gave Matherly the go-ahead to seek the planning grant.
Committee member David Venne reported that radio station WPSK has taken the creation of a playground on the Pulaski YMCA property as one of its community projects to push this year.
A new walking tour brochure of Pulaski has been drawn up by Keith Stafford of the Economic Development Department, and will go to a printer soon.
Letters went out this week to arts organizations in Southwest Virginia and parts of North Carolina and West Virginia to see if they want to participate in the town's Depot Days Festival June 20-23.
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