ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, September 17, 1996 TAG: 9609170088
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: B-7 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: GREG EDWARDS
Requests for money to build or improve access roads to a telephone-parts manufacturer in Salem and a rock quarry in Franklin County are on the agenda for Thursday's meeting of the Commonwealth Transportation Board in Richmond.
Salem City Council has asked the board for a $225,000 allocation from industrial access funds to build a road to serve Designed Telecommunications Inc.'s new $1.03 million plant and other future tenants in the Spartan Industrial Center. The 30-acre industrial park is off Sheraton Road near Virginia 419 and Interstate 81.
Designed Telecommunications will employ 100 people with another 25 to be added early next year.
The transportation board also will consider a request from the Franklin County Board of Supervisors for $150,000 to help make $562,000 in improvements to roads providing access to Rockydale Quarries Corp.'s new Jacks Mountain Quarry, south of Virginia 40 in eastern Franklin County.
The buildings and equipment for the 324-acre quarry have recently been completed at a cost of $1.5 million. The quarry will employ 10 people initially.
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