Bladen County says Elizabethtown barred county from new investment into industrial park [Video]

BLADEN COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) – Bladen County says that it has been barred from investing into the Elizabethtown Industrial Park by the town after plans for a development significantly changed.

A three-page press release was released on Wednesday, Oct. 16.

The county says that community leaders created the nonprofit Bladen’s Bloomin’ Agri-Industrial (BBAI), Inc. back in 2002 to support business development and create jobs. A total of 29 projects have been completed since then, and two more projects are under construction. The Cape Fear Valley Medical Facility is well on its way to completion, and the county says these are in addition to nine other completed projects located in the Elizabethtown Industrial Park as part of efforts from the county and BBAI.

According to the county, the park is the only industrial park in the county that has water and sewer infrastructure.

But the county says the partnership’s biggest project …