Henderson County is the home of a new regional Build-Ready location available for development by a future business.
The new Build-Ready site, located in the 4-Star Regional Industrial Park in Robards, adds to the state’s growing list of properties certified by the Cabinet for Economic Development as Build-Ready.
Future Economic Success
The site includes more than 100 acres zoned for heavy industrial use, the largest graded Build-Ready site in the state at more than 1.1 million-square-feet and an additional 150,000-square-foot graded building pad.
Utilities include a four-inch gas line, 10-inch sewer line and 18-inch waterline.
The property includes electric service provided by Kenergy Corp. and natural gas provided by Atmos Energy Corp. and Texas Gas Transmission Corp.
The site is also serviced with fiber for telecommunications.
The Henderson County site offers the largest graded Build-Ready-certified building pad in the Commonwealth.
It is a regional project with support from Henderson, McLean, Union and Webster counties.
The site was also previously approved in June 2023 for $1.4 million in state funding through the Kentucky Product Development Initiative to complete a site grading plan at the site.
“Our state’s Build-Ready program has grown significantly over the last several years, and I’m excited to see that momentum continue in Henderson County as we announce the largest Build-Ready site in the Commonwealth,” said Governor Andy Beshear. “One of the biggest draws to Kentucky for growing companies is our commitment to site development, and a collaboration like this in Western Kentucky is a prime example of what makes Team Kentucky great. I want to congratulate Henderson County on its new Build-Ready site and look forward to what new investment and job creation it will bring to Kentucky.”
How To Be Build-Ready
To be certified as Build-Ready, a site must include a pad that can accommodate a building of 50,000-square-feet, with the ability to expand to 100,000 square feet or more, and utilities extending to the site.
Applicants, usually a city, county or economic development group, must have previously filed the necessary permits, as well as preliminary building plans, cost estimates and schedule projections.
Applicants also are asked to provide a rendering of a potential building for the site.
Including the new site in Henderson County, the commonwealth is home to 23 available Build-Ready sites.
Multiple other locations across the state are currently working toward certification.
To date, 12 former Build-Ready-certified sites – including tracts located in Barren, Butler, Christian, Graves, Hart, Laurel and Pulaski counties and five sites in Warren County – have been selected by companies for new location projects.
For more information, visit ced.ky.gov/buildready.
