In hopes of creating hundreds of jobs in Leesburg and millions in new development, city officials want to develop a multimillion-dollar industrial park to attract energy and aerospace companies.
One part of the park will target high-tech businesses that will work together to create environmentally friendly alternative power and fuels. Another facet will bring together aviation and aerospace companies supported by proposed joint-use manufacturing facilities, 2,500ft grass and paved airstrips and an advanced aviation business incubator planned through a cooperative partnership between Leesburg and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
J. Douglass Drymon, Leesburg deputy city manager, said the city would carve out about 34 lots from the property and lease them for only a few bucks a year to companies in those industries - in hopes of a potential return of about 600 jobs.
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