Construction is set to begin in March on a $56 million business development in Radcliff that's expected to bring in as many as 600 new jobs. Radcliff mayor J.J. Duvall said the announcement of a Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market coming in to anchor the development project was the "final piece of the puzzle."
Duvall and his team have been working on the 22 acre development for more than three years. It will be located off 31W and Joe Prather Highway on the city's south end.
Duvall said besides the Wal-Mart Market, the development will also be the site of retailers, restaurants, a bank, a hotel and a 35,000 square foot building housing a medical real estate developer.
Earlier this year it was announced that near-by Fort Knox would lose a brigade and as many as 3,000 personnel under a Base Closure and Realignment. Duvall said this project should help take some of the sting out of that. "Anytime they have ups and downs at the post, the community feels those effects," he told WKU Public Radio, "so to have some stabile jobs in the community is really a bonus for us."
Construction is expected to begin in March with the first phase on a 226 day construction schedule expected to be finished in October 2015.
"We definitely need a project like this," the Mayor said, "we've got some good things going on in our community with the veterans nursing home being built on the north side of town, now, to bring in a project like this, to have a number of jobs being brought into the community and good paying, quality jobs, can only help the community and the tax base here."
