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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Call Center to Create 300-500 Jobs
Morristown answered the call for jobs in the Lakeway Area with today’s announcement regarding a global leader in the customer service industry. Officials from Sykes Enterprises attended the June 23 meeting of the city’s Industrial Development Board to finalize details regarding the company’s newest inbound call center location that will begin training its first wave […]
Morristown Utility Systems Receives National Recognition
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 7, 2014—Morristown Utility Systems is one of 184 of the nation’s more than 2,000 public power utilities to earn the Reliable Public Power Provider (RP3®) designation from the American Public Power Association for providing consumers with the highest degree of reliable and safe electric service. Brent McKinney, manager, electric transmission and distribution […]
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