Mayor: Connersville accepts $4M offer for plant - 13 WTHR Indianapolis

Mayor: Connersville accepts $4M offer for plant

Posted: Updated:
CONNERSVILLE -

Connersville Mayor Leonard Urban says the eastern Indiana city has accepted an approximately $4 million offer to sell a vacant Visteon auto parts plant to a buyer specializing in returning such sites to the tax rolls.

Urban said in a telephone interview Wednesday he can't reveal the name of the buyer until the deal closes but the city will recover most of more than $4 million in environmental cleanup costs.

He says a Carbon Motors Corp. police car plant still proposed for the site would fill about a third of the space. When Carbon lost out on a $310 million federal loan in March, it threw its Connersville prospects into doubt, but Urban says Carbon is lining up new capital.

A message seeking comment was left with a Carbon spokesman.

(Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)

Powered by WorldNow
Links to the FCC website to view WTHR and/or WALV’s on-line public inspection files:
WTHR: https://stations.fcc.gov/station-profile/WTHR   ||   WALV: https://stations.fcc.gov/station-profile/WALV
Individuals with disabilities may contact Jill Pursell at publicfile@wthr.com, or 317.655.5602, for assistance with access to the public inspection files.
Powered by WorldNowAll content © Copyright 2000 - 2013 WorldNow and WTHR. For more information on this site, please read our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.