Timeline for further industry park development

Project manager Russell Johnson of the Oconee Economic Alliance gave a timeline today for the education facilities that are to be built in the county’s Information and Technology Park on highway 11.  Construction on the first Tri-County Technical College satellite campus for Oconee County will start in April, and Tech President Ronnie Booth responded to Johnson’s forecast by saying the building money “is all in the bank.”  Meantime, Johnson says the task to build the Tech campus and later Oconee School District’s new career center will require the moving of 1.5 million cubic yards of dirt.  As for the career center, Johnson outlined the following timeline:  the start of construction in July 2018 with the opening in 2020.