BAMBERG, S.C. – The SouthernCarolina Alliance and its economic partners celebrated the completion of a new 30,000-square-foot speculative building at CrossRhodes Industrial Park near Bamberg on Tuesday.

Members of the nonprofit economic development alliance representing Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell and Hampton counties cut the blue ribbon, marking the facility’s completion.

DeThane Johnson, vice chairman of the Alliance and chairman of the Hampton County Economic Development Board, said the new building is a great marketing tool for the whole region.

“It’s for all of us who work and live here in the region … a great representation of the great feats we can do when we work together as a team,” she said.

The building has not been sold but is still in the marketing stage, said Kell Anderson, Alliance project manager for Bamberg County.

“We’re just very excited,” he said. “It’s been a long time in the planning stages, and we’re happy to have it complete. We’ll go through and shop it out to sites and on our Web site and the Department of Commerce Web site and try to move it as quickly as we can.”

One thing that makes the industrial building so marketable is its versatility, says Anderson.

“They designed it to be as flexible as it could possibly be … to attract as many buyers as possible. It’s got knockout panels in the back wall to extend the building if extra floor space is needed,” he said.

CrossRhodes site offers an additional incentive for prospective industries because of the multi-county status of the industrial park, Anderson said.

“Not only do the four counties in the alliance benefit from the multi-county tax revenue sharing agreement, the company locating here will receive additional tax incentives for locating in a multi-county park,” Anderson said in an earlier interview.

T&D Correspondent Dale Linder-Altman can be reached by e-mail at jerryanddale@lowcountry.com.

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