Quote Originally Posted by HiPSI
Hall county has been known to re-zone shit when more money is potentially there. the number of homes they will slap on that 90 or so acres in question probably is enough money for them to consider it when it comes to tax revenues on the 140+ houses they will squeeze in there. at the same time, Panoz has a lot of influence ($$$) in the area between RA, Chateau Elan, and his manufacturing shop for his roadcars off of 124 and i'm sure they'd hate to piss him off and have him pull out of the county (and he certainly could do so if he chose to).
dont forget about Elan Motorsports where tons of racecars are built from Indy cars, Star Mazda, IMSA Lites, and the Esperante GTLM and the Batmobile a few years ago. His shop for roadcars is Panoz Auto Development, although not hugely successful, still supplies a lot of jobs.
Personally, I dont think this is going to happen, I have been hearing it about it for a while, before I worked there, while I worked there, and still hear it now about friends who still work there. But only time will tell, hopefully it wont close, that place was a second home to me.