B Entertainment Expanding into Georgia
B Entertainment working in partnership with City of Gainesville, Georgia & Gainesville Redevelopment Authority to bring world-class music venue and Bourbon Brothers Smokehouse and Tavern to North Georgia
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.
, April 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ B Entertainment today announced that we are planning to expand our business into the Atlanta metro area and are in negotiations with the City of Gainesville, Georgia to locate a campus that will bring great live music, a first-class event venue and the highly acclaimed Bourbon Brothers Smokehouse and Tavern to a location adjacent to the downtown square.
Related Dave Mathias’ family has worked the land around Moorefield in Hardy County, West Virginia, for generations. His home in the community of Old Fields is just a mile away from a farm where his grandfather raised cattle and his cousin later tended crops. But that cousin recently sold the land to WV Poultry Partners, LLC.
Now, it’s a construction site for 15 large confinement chicken houses that will supply Pilgrim’s Pride. Combined, the structures will cover the length of 26 football fields. Less than five miles away, in the same community, WV Poultry Partners is building an even bigger facility. That one will have the capacity to hold close to a million chickens at a time in 19 houses; a quiet subdivision built to overlook what was once a picturesque rolling meadow is about 1,000 feet away.
Building on its investment in the state of Georgia, Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation announced that it plans to invest $70 million to build a state-of-the-art pet food ingredient plant in Franklin County, Georgia. The new plant will create 90 permanent, good-paying jobs in Franklin County, as well as 100 construction and trades jobs during development of the facility. Pilgrim’s estimates that the plant, upon completion, will have a $65 million annual economic impact on the region through direct and indirect spending. The project will generate more than $1 million annually in local tax revenue, helping to fund county services and local schools. The state-of-the-art pet food ingredient plant will be built on a site adjacent to Interstate 85 outside of Carnesville and will employ the most advanced technologies available to protect Franklin County’s natural resources. That technology includes:
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Pilgrim s officials say the proposed $70-million pet food conversion plant along Interstate 85 near Carnesville will feature state-of-the-art environmental measures, including indoor unloading and truck cleaning, on-site processing of production and storm water, and other odor-elimination controls.
Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. plans to build a $70-million pet food ingredient plant near Interstate 85 in Franklin County.
The state-of-the-art plant will create 90 permanent jobs with competitive wages after opening, and 100 jobs in skilled trades during the construction phase, an announcement from the company states.
Pilgrim’s has not requested a tax abatement for the project, and company officials estimate the project will generate more than $1 million annually in local tax revenue and have a $65-million annual economic impact on the region through direct and indirect spending.
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From left: Jamila Norman of Patchwork City Farms, Karen Washington of Black Urban Growers and Dara Cooper of the National Black Food and Justice Alliance, photographed at Norman’s farm in Atlanta on Jan. 18, 2021.Credit.Photograph by Nydia Blas. Set design by Beth Pakradooni. Set designer’s assistant: Harry Smith.
By Ligaya Mishan
Feb. 19, 2021
AN ALTAR IS a sacred space, but you can make one anywhere, out of anything; out of what you’re given. On Dec. 5, a small group gathered in downtown Springdale, Ark., to line the cement steps of a public square with Our Lady of Guadalupe candles, chrysanthemums and white cards bearing the handwritten names of local poultry workers who had died of Covid-19. Under each name was the l