The Bedford County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved the appropriation of a total of $400,000 for a new phase of the New London Business and Technology Center, an expansion project that will require the championship-level disc golf course at the site to be redesigned.
The approval means the county will be able to receive a total of $2.25 million in grant funds from the Virginia Business Park Readiness Program and the Virginia Tobacco Revitalization Commission.
To receive grants from the two state programs for the New London business park on U.S. 460 in Forest, Bedford County was required to approve the matching funds. The county’s Economic Development Authority previously agreed to put up $350,000 in matching funds for the expansion at New London.
The Phase 2 plans involve clearing two sites and continuing the Meade Road gravel extension, the road on which the business park is located, along with …