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Blue Oval City

As West Tennessee community pressures Ford for promises, lawmakers curb ‘community benefits agreements’

Cynthia Abrams

March 25, 2025

The Tennessee legislature is looking to curb “community benefits agreements” — binding contracts in which corporations work with neighboring residents to address community concerns.

Filed Under: Metro, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 114th Tennessee General Assembly, Blue Oval City, Charlane Oliver, Ford Motor Company, Nashville SC, Page Walley, Stand Up Nashville, Tennessee Legislature, tennessee state legislature

Study being done to search for gravesite at site of Ford’s Blue Oval City

Blaise Gainey

November 29, 2022

The Memphis Corps of Engineers is looking into what may be a former gravesite on part of the mega site of Ford’s Blue Oval City in West Tennessee. 

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: Blue Oval City, Economic Development, electric vehicle, EVs, ford megasite, memphis corps of engineers, West Tennessee

Majority Black Mason, Tennessee — home to new Ford plant — avoids state takeover but sewage standoff remains

Blake Farmer

May 9, 2022

Tommy Tate
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The town of Mason sits at the edge of what will be called Blue Oval City in rural West Tennessee. It’s less than two square miles. No stoplight. But it does have a sewer system — and a little carwash.

Filed Under: Business, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Blue Oval City, Ford Motor Company, Jeff Huffman, Tipton County, Town of Mason

Mason leaders and Tennessee comptroller reach deal over town’s finances to avert court battle

Damon Mitchell

May 4, 2022

After concerns from Mason leaders that the town was being set up to fail, an attorney representing Mason says the new agreement puts them in a better position to succeed.

Filed Under: Politics, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Blue Oval City, Ford Motor Company, Mason, Tennessee Comptroller, Town of Mason

In Mason, a historical pattern of white leaders assuming control of Black towns reemerges

Damon Mitchell

April 27, 2022

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Across the country, at least 19 states have laws allowing them to takeover down-and-out cities. Those laws have been tested in majority-Black towns like Robersonville, North Carolina and Camden, New Jersey.

Filed Under: Politics, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Blue Oval City, Ford Motor Company, Mason, Tennessee Comptroller, Town of Mason

TCAT president says state’s workforce partnership with Ford is off to a good start

Damon Mitchell

April 1, 2022

The Tennessee Board of Regents is inching closer to revising its training programs to better fit Ford Motor Company’s upcoming hiring needs.

Filed Under: Business, Education, WPLN News Tagged With: Blue Oval City, Ford Motor Company, Higher Education, Tennessee Board of Regents

If Ford’s Blue Oval City fails, Tennessee could get back some of its incentive money

Blaise Gainey

October 19, 2021

Rep. Ron Gant explaining how the claw backs work in the megasite incentive package.

Ford must hire and maintain at least 90% of the nearly 5,800 jobs it’s promising for the decade following the accountability agreement. If not, the company faces clawbacks thanks to state legislation passed after the failure of the Clarksville Hemlock Semiconductor plant.

Filed Under: Business, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Blue Oval City, economic incentives, Ford Motor Company, Hemlock Semiconductor, Ron Gant

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