Moving to
Lewisburg, TN

MARQUEE SITE — I-65 Commerce Park (the engine, not a single building): A publicly-owned industrial park (roughly 90 acres, with some sources citing up to 117 acres of greenfield) managed by Marshall County Economic & Community Development, located less than a mile from I-65 Exit 32 off Highway 373/Veterans Dr in Lewisburg. It already hosts about seven industries spanning automotive, food, and call-center/distribution, and is served by city utilities (electric, gas, water, sewer, fiber). It offers a 120,000-sq-ft construction-ready pad plus roughly 80 acres still developable, divisible into 5-acre-minimum parcels.

CURRENT MOMENTUM: Lewisburg has pursued roughly $5 million in state grant funding to develop about 90 acres at the I-65 Commerce Park for manufacturing and logistics — covering site leveling and due-diligence costs to make the land shovel-ready. This is the city's most consequential active economic-development initiative and the surface most likely to draw the next large employer. (The exact figure should be confirmed against the city's official postings.)

LARGEST SITED PRIVATE PROJECT — Rockford Spring Company: Announced June 20, 2022 by Gov. Bill Lee / TNECD. The Illinois-based, family-owned maker of custom precision springs and wire forms (for automotive, agriculture, firearms, hydraulics, outdoor power equipment) established its second U.S. facility at 1100 Garrett Parkway in Lewisburg — a $10.3 million investment creating 62 jobs. It remains the clearest recent dollars-and-jobs win tied to a specific Lewisburg address.

OTHER NOTABLE ACTIVITY: Cra-Z-Art (parent of RoseArt; operator of a large pencil factory in Lewisburg) announced in March 2025 a roughly 50% U.S. manufacturing expansion to 1.5 million sq ft, citing tariffs — but the company did not specify whether the new capacity lands in Lewisburg, TN or Jacksonville, FL, and disclosed no investment or job figures, so it cannot yet be credited to Lewisburg. Separately, Lewisburg Printing, Inc. ($12M / 90 jobs / 82,000 sq ft) is sometimes cited, but that announcement dates to 2016, not the current cycle.

HONEST CONTEXT: As a small rural Middle TN town about 58 miles south of Nashville with deep Tennessee Walking Horse heritage, Lewisburg/Marshall County has no headline-grabbing billion-dollar project. Manufacturing is a large share of area employment (roughly one-fifth), with several dozen manufacturing units and several thousand employees. The realistic narrative is incremental industrial recruitment anchored by the I-65 Commerce Park rather than one transformative development.