New Development Coming to City of Brundidge
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More jobs are coming to the city of Brundidge. Today, we learn that two different companies are either setting up shop in the city or expanding already existing facilities.
More people will soon be put to work in the city of Brundidge as one company expands and another is set to break ground.
“10 million dollars of money being invested into our community and 80 jobs in 30 months, that’s a big boost to a town our size,” said Brundidge Mayor Jimmy Ramage.
Southern Classic Foods will be expanding the existing processing facility, adding on a new production line that will be exclusively dedicated to the production of juice products.
And a new manufacturing facility, Magnolia Vegetable Processing, is also coming to the area. That facility will process picked vegetables.
“Obviously the most recognized vegetable that gets pickled are cucumbers,” said Chuck Caraway, who owns both companies. “We’ll do that but we’ll also do some of the other niche items, pickled okras, picked beets, picked cauliflower, peppers.”
Caraway says he’s setting up shop in Brundidge because it’s a good place to do business.
“Some of the first food processing plants making jams and jellies and peanut butter were right here in Brundidge so you had a group of folks that had that set of skills and then of course, the city itself has put in the infrastructure to support processing.”
Mayor Ramagh says the city has worked hard to attract the businesses.
“We’ve spent a lot of time and effort on our waste-water treatment facility and then for these projects. We actually invested in buying 222 acres along the trail run to make land available for this expansion and the new company.”
Ramage says the city will service the debt attained from buying that land with an ad valorem tax from an earlier company.
The land for the new company is now being cleared for ground breaking. That project should be complete within 30 months.
