{"id":252863,"date":"2013-04-18T14:15:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T19:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=252863"},"modified":"2013-04-19T14:09:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T19:09:11","slug":"smith-county-tjc-sign-off-on-tazza-pronto-incentive-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=252863","title":{"rendered":"Smith County, TJC Sign Off on Tazza Pronto Incentive Package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=252864\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-252864\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/04\/thumb_tom-mullins2.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_tom-mullins\" width=\"98\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-252864\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2014 TJC trustees have approved an incentive package for the Italian company Tazza Pronto. The move comes two days after the Smith County Commissioners Court gave its blessing to the project. The Tyler City Council had already approved the package, tossing in some incentives of its own. Tyler Economic Development Council chief Tom Mullins (pictured) says the company\u2019s been looking in Seattle, Kentucky, and Tyler. If it chooses Tyler, it will partner with Distant Lands Coffee on a popular single-serve product, operating in the old Carrier plant. Mullins remains confident the deal will go through; he says Tazza Pronto could start up operations in Tyler later this year, bringing in up to 200 jobs within three to five years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 TJC trustees have approved an incentive package for the Italian company Tazza Pronto. The move comes two days after the Smith County Commissioners Court gave its blessing to the project. The Tyler City Council had already approved the package, tossing in some incentives of its own. Tyler Economic Development Council chief Tom Mullins &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=252863\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County, TJC Sign Off on Tazza Pronto Incentive Package<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 15:24:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252863"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253101,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252863\/revisions\/253101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}