New business coming to industrial park
PHOTO BY JEFF ROSLOW
Jerry Butterworth (in green shirt) talks about environmental standards he kept at Florida Aircraft Painting at Bartow Municipal Airport at an Airport Authority meeting in September. His business location will be now be Light Sport America and subleased by J. Phil McCoy (in blue shirt) of McCoy Marketing.
By the middle of October, there might be a new business at the Bartow Municipal Airport that could mean somewhere between 100 and 200 jobs within a few years.
That was the deal that was finalized between J. Phil McCoy and the Bartow Airport Authority Monday night. In finalizing a contract to sublease a building formerly housing Florida Aircraft Painting, McCoy is relocating Light Sport America from Tunisia to Bartow. If everything goes as planned the deal could close by mid-October.
