Old Goodyear Plant May Have New Occupant

TYLER — Tyler’s old Goodyear plant could finally be seeing some new business. KETK reports that county commissioners Tuesday approved a three-year tax abatement for Scott’s Fertilizer Company. Tom Mullins of the Tyler Economic Development Council says if the company chooses to move in, it would set up shop on just 63 acres of the area. He says the firm would provide products to Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, bringing up to fifty new jobs to East Texas. Commissioner Jeff Warr says the prospect is particularly attractive “because not only does it create the core jobs there in the plant; it creates a tremendous amount of peripheral dollars coming in with truckers, transportation fuel sales, things like that.” The land was recently bought by IRG Industrial, which has a history of buying old industrial buildings and re-purposing them.