Further Evidence of Volkswagen's Bigger Plans

Cookeville-Putnam Chamber of Commerce President George Halford was a part of the recent delegation to Germany, and he returned telling the Cookeville Herald Citizen, "This project is bigger than big. It's bigger than we expected." Halford said, "They could double the size of this plant. The $1 billion investment could double. There's going to be a lot of business heading our way."

Despite the project being bigger than expected, Halford still apparently sees a lot of competition. "Just in the state of Tennessee, within 90 miles of the Volkswagen plant, there are 346 industrial sites, 192 available buildings and 19,433 acres available for industry," Halford said. "This just shows the level of competition that we're working against. I didn't realize there were that many sites."