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Word on the street: There’s action at former Citizen-Times printing plant location on Sardis Road

Jason Sandford January 20, 2010

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

Loyal reader Bill tells me that there’s action at the location of the Asheville Citizen-Times‘ former printing plant on Sardis Road. He says it looks like someone’s moving in.

Here’s what I last wrote about the property:

The site was sold to an injection molding company that plans to produce medical equipment. They’ll be looking to build a clean room, which sounds like that could mean a significant investment in a building, not to mention the prospect of new manufacturing jobs.

It’s unclear what the company will produce. As I stated earlier, I have yet to confirm the property transfer. If anyone has more detail, let me know.

The Citizen-Times closed the printing press back in January and moved the giant press out this summer. I’m told it mostly went to scrap – that’s a correction on my part. I thought that most of it went into storage in Greenville, S.C.

I’m tracking down details if anyone has anything to add, please let me know.

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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Abianon January 21, 2010

My mad sleuthing skills came up with this.
http://www.polylinks.net/ via Google.

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Abianon January 21, 2010

That sign went up 3 months ago. there has been very little activity there. The driveway wasn’t cleared for a week after that snow, and the fallen trees for another week.

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Kevin deLeon January 21, 2010

Looks like this is probably the company. http://www.polylinks.net/

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the word January 20, 2010

Didn’t you used to work at the paper? How do you store a press??? HA HA!!

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