July 23, 2024 — Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, Department of Economic & Community Development Commissioner Stuart C. McWhorter and Howmet Aerospace Inc. officials announced the company is expanding its Morristown, TN location. “It’s great to see companies already in Tennessee continuing to invest in our communities. I frequently say the state with the greatest workforce […]
Rich Foods announces $27 million expansion
February 27, 2024 — An important member of Morristown’s industrial network announced a $27 million expansion to its Morristown facility on Monday. Rich’s, a global family-owned food company will create 51 new manufacturing jobs in Hamblen County, bringing its total headcount throughout Tennessee to nearly 1,400 people. “Tennessee is shaped by companies like Rich’s that […]
Hamblen County property named a Select TN Certified Site
January 6, 2023 – The Tennessee Department of Economic & Community Development announced that three sites have been certified through the Select Tennessee Certified Sites program. A site at the East Tennessee Progress Center in Morristown/Hamblen County is among them. Seventy sites across Tennessee have been certified to date. The newest certified sites and their […]
New Facility for Handsome Brook Farms in Morristown
October 7, 2022 – Handsome Brook Farms to invest $31 million, bring 140 jobs with egg processing facility Morristown ushered in a new era by welcoming representatives of Handsome Brook Farms to its future processing facility in the East Tennessee Progress Center. Handsome Brook Farms utilizes a network of farms scattered across several Midwestern states […]
Morristown gets $23.4 million RAISE Grant
August 14, 2022 – South Cumberland Street in Morristown is getting a major facelift, thanks to the RAISE Grant, which brings an award of $23,430,325 to improve the corridor into the community. City officials said the South Cumberland corridor has long been identified as an are in need of safety and aesthetic improvements. In 2021, […]
Walters State Awarded Community College of the Year
March 31, 2002 – Walters State Community College was recognized as the Community College of the Year during the College System of Tennessee TBR SOAR Awards on Wednesday, March 30, 2022. “With opportunities for Tennesseans to attend college at an all-time high thanks to Tennessee Promise and Tennessee Reconnect, the Tennessee Board of Regents will […]
Housing Boom!
October 10, 2021 – Morristown and Hamblen County are in the midst of a housing renaissance. Within a year-and-a-half, the county has seen an amount of growth not seen in decades. Almost 15 different home construction projects are on the way within Morristown city limits, with the possibility of even more to come. Since February […]
Greenworks coming to Morristown
October 31, 2021 – Greenworks Commercial, the leading provider of battery-operated outdoor power equipment is announcing plans for a new manufacturing, research & development, product testing and customer experience center in Morristown. The $20 million initial investment will create hundreds of new jobs for the are beginning next year. “I appreciate Greenworks investment in Morristown […]
TCAT celebrates expansion
September 19, 2021 – Tennessee Governor Bill cut the ribbon on the brand new Tennessee College of Applied Technology – Morristown building on Friday, September 17, 2021. The $20 million expansion now has students in it, learning some of the latest technology in advanced manufacturing, welding and HVAC. “This TCAT we cut a ribbon on […]
BlueStone Label hosts ribbon cutting
January 26, 2021 – One doesn’t have to look far to see a success story. BlueStone Label, one of Morristown’s best-kept industrial secrets, celebrated its success with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Friday, January 21st at their plant on North High Street across from Morristown Ford. The label, vinyl and more printing company was originally […]
Morristown ranked 6th best place to work in manufacturing
December 23, 2019 – The city of Morristown has been recognized for its place in the manufacturing world. According to SmartAsset, a personal finance technology company headquartered in New York, Morristown is the sixth-best place to work in manufacturing in the nation, following Elkhart-Goshen, Indiana, Greenville, North Carolina, Elizabethtown/Fort Knox, Kentucky, Spartanburg, South Carolina and […]
McNeilus Steel Coming to Morristown
McNeilus Steel chooses Morristown for new manufacturing facility.
Morristown awarded $1 million grant
February 6, 2019 – Governor Bill Lee and the Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bob Rolfe announced the City of Morristown is being awarded a Select TN Site Development Grant in the amount of $1 million dollars. Morristown will use the grant monies for preparation of an industrial site in the East Tennessee […]
Petoskey Plastics Expanding Morristown Operations
May 7, 2018 – Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bob Rolfe and Petoskey Plastics, Inc. officials announced today that the company will invest $29.6 million to expand its operations in Hamblen County. Petoskey Plastics plans to create approximately 70 jobs in Morristown over the next five years. “I’d like to thank Petoskey […]
Belgian bus manufacturer Van Hool coming to Morristown
April 12, 2018 – Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bob Rolfe and Van Hool NV officials announced today that the Belgian company will establish its first U.S. manufacturing operation in Morristown and create nearly 640 jobs over the next five years. Van Hool, a family-owned Belgian manufacturer of buses, […]
Property in ETPC named a Select Tennessee Certified Site
April 6, 2018 – The Morristown Area Chamber of Commerce, in conjunction with the Morristown Industrial Development Board, announced this week that one of the city’s industrial sites under development has been named a Select Tennessee Certified Site. The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development recently designated Lot 3 in the East Tennessee Progress […]
Hamblen Schools Awarded Internship Program Grant
March 9, 2018 – Hamblen County is getting assistance from the state as it grows its student internship program this year. “We wrote the grant so we could expand that,” said Chuck Carter, supervisor for Career and Technical Education for Hamblen County schools. The state sent out a news release announcing that a total of […]
Colortech to Expand
February 18, 2018 – Colortech, Inc. announced plans to expand its Morristown operations this week. This project will add an additional 44,000 square feet to their facility at 5712 Commerce Blvd. “Colortech has successfully grown our business, thanks to the hard work and dedicated associates and our business partners,” Alex Rom-Roginski said in making the […]
Lakeway Area schools graduation rates higher than state average
September 17, 2017 – Schools in the Lakeway Region are graduating at a much higher rate then the state average. Numbers released by the Tennessee Department of Education last week show most counties in the area graduate about five points higher than the state average of 89.1 percent. Hamblen County schools had a 94.1 percent […]
Rockline Industries creating 250 jobs in Morristown
March 30, 2017 – Governor Bill Haslam, Dept. of Economic & Community Development Commissioner Bob Rolfe and Rockline Industries officials announced today that the consumer goods manufacturer and supplier will form a new subsidiary, Iatric Manufacturing Solutions, and locate a new facility in Hamblen County. Rockline and Iatric Manufacturing will invest $40.3 million and create approximately […]
SkyMart Venture Place Opens
February 22, 2017 – Entrepreneurial ideas now have a place to incubate and expand in Morristown. On Tuesday (February 21,) the SkyMart Venture Place opened in downtown Morristown on Main Street. Within the newly renovated space, the CO.STARTERS program will be housed. The program allows people with business ideas to meet and commune with like-minded […]
New HVAC Program Coming to TCAT
December 18, 2016 – Vice Chancellor James King of the Tennessee Board of Regents, who oversees all 27 Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technology, announced that TCAT-Morristown has been selected to become an HVAC Center of Excellence, only the second school in Tennessee to receive this distinction. TCAT-Morristown will partner with Trane and NC3, National Coalition […]
Lakeway Area awarded a second L.E.A.P. Grant
September 21, 2016 – For the second time, a region and coalition of educators has been awarded a state Labor and Education Alignment Program grant to improve workforce development in high schools and higher education. This time, it is in the amount of $983,440. “Strengthening the Lakeway Links 2.0: Providing a Demand Driven Workforce Supply […]
TCAT celebrates results of USDA grant
June 24, 2016 – Last year, the Tennessee College of Applied Technology in Morristown (TCAT) became the recipient of a $110,020 Rural Business Development grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The grant was to be used at the Morristown & Hawkins County campuses to assist with the purchase of state-of-the-art technology equipment to be used […]
Mall Lands 2 New Stores
May 6, 2016 – CBL & Associates Properties Inc. announced today that DICK’S Sporting Goods and Ulta Beauty are coming to College Square Mall in Morristown. The two new stores will be situated in the former JC Penney’s location. “It’s exciting when we have national retailers locate here, giving people throughout the region another shopping […]
West High School Earns Recognition
The Washington Post has released its 2016 list of America’s Most Challenging High Schools, and Morristown-Hamblen High School West has been named as 13th in the state of Tennessee. “This is an incredible honor for West High School to be names to such an elite list of schools by the Washington Post,” director of schools […]
Downtown Awarded Entrepreneur Grant
The Tennessee Department of Economic & Community Development announced that the Crossroads Downtown Partnership will be awarded a $50,000 Tennessee Main Street Entrepreneur Grant. ECD Commissioner Randy Boyd explained that these grants will be used to provide startup space and training for entrepreneurs to encourage business growth in established downtown commercial districts. Barbara Garrow, Crossroads Program Director, […]
Morristown High Schools Named to America’s Best High Schools List
The U.S. News & World Report’s list of America’s Best High Schools of 2016 has been released, and Morristown-Hamblen High Schools West and East have been named as recipients of silver medals, ranked 20 and 25 in Tennessee respectively. “First off, I would just like to say congratulations to both East and West high schools […]
Merchants Greene Development Set for Fall Opening
The build-out of the Merchants Greene commercial property off West Andrew Johnson Hwy. is continuing with two nearly identical 12,000-square-foot strip-mall shopping centers on land east of Home Trust Bank. Shannon Greene, the primary developer, says he has letters of intent from businesses that will occupy 75% of the rental space, and that’s the target […]
Morristown Recognized for ED Efforts
Morristown has been recognized in several categories of Southern Business & Development magazine’s The Best of Economic Development in the American South in the state of Tennessee. Members of the Southern Economic Development Roundtable were polled to come up with the best of 30 economic development categories in each Southern state. SEDR is a group […]
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