Article: Boards vie for title, development rights to Oak Ridge, Tenn., industrial park.

By Bob Fowler, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 27--OAK RIDGE, Tenn. -- Two industrial development boards are engaged in a quiet, behind-the-scenes tug-of-war over Horizon Center, a nearly empty industrial park in the Roane County part of Oak Ridge.

Vying to obtain title to the park and give it tax-exempt status are the Oak Ridge Industrial Development Board and the Industrial Development Board of Roane County.

At stake, say officials, is the future of how the 470-acre park is developed and the perception of whether it's an Oak Ridge or a Roane County industrial park.

Although in Oak ...

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