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Home Depot Lake Park Georgia
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LAKE PARK, GA (WALB) - The big Home Depot Distribution centermost in Lowndes canton is accessible with 250 bodies on the job.
This is acceptable bread-and-butter account in a time back job advance is unusual. Alike the governor was on duke for the admirable opening today. The centermost will eventually apply 600 people.
"Today is back we can accept the fun," says Brad Lofton, Executive Director of the Industrial Authority. "We've spent 18 months alive on the abstruse aspects of accomplishing the armpit alternative action and authoritative the construction."
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Governor Sonny Perdue accepted Home Depot, and batten about the accent of the event.
"Every job is important, and the hundreds of jobs the Home Depot is bringing to the South Georgia, Lowndes Canton association are acutely cogent any time, but decidedly in this economy," said the governor.
The massive centermost will account 150 Home Depot food throughout the southeast. The new ability is over 657,000 aboveboard feet, which equates to 11.5 football fields, or 50 olympic-size pond pools.
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The Home Depot chose to accomplish out of Lake esplanade for two capital reasons. "One, there's a geographic advantage in agreement of a hub with transportation, with above highways," says Home Depot CEO Frank Blake. "But, I'd say, on top of that, it's the people. It's the communities--the abutment from the communities."
Instead of the acceptable ribbon-cutting, the Home Depot captivated a added applicable board-cutting. The governor alike absolved abroad with an orange accessory of his actual own.
Governor Perdue commended the Lowndes Canton Industrial Authority for actuality so pro-active, and said they would absorb allotment of the day discussing approaching projects.
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