Five years ago Site Selection documented how Williams Sausage’s $44 million, 200-plus-job expansion into a second manufacturing complex and new corporate office in Northwest Tennessee was enabled in part by New Markets Tax Credits (NMTCs).
Energy is an issue that is critical across the nation, superseding competitive issues of cities and regions. As states — and as a nation — we may rise and fall on the way we innovate and build this essential part of our economic development foundation.