The Schaeffler Group’s footprint in Dover continues to grow.
Mayor Shane Gunnoe says the company recently purchased 29 more acres of land around the site where it’s building a manufacturing facility for electric vehicle components.
The proposed construction has doubled in size – to 300-thousand square feet – since the initial proposal a year ago, and the acreage has expanded beyond incentive agreements.
Those agreements call for the creation of 450 jobs over two phases. Gunnoe says the city is preparing the infrastructure around the site, with stormwater, street and electricity projects in the works.
He says the target for completion of Phase 1 is mid-2026.
In separate economic development news, Council approved the widening of Ohio Avenue and the addition of a water line there for the new, 30-home Crimson Cove subdivision.
The city’s planning commission OK’d two variances for a new 52-hundred-square-foot Circle K store near I-77 and state Route 39 in front of the Comfort Inn.
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