Business View Magazine | May 2019

296 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE MAY 2019 a new splash pad/water park facility for our youth. In addition to baseball fields, rectangular all-purpose fields, a walking trail, and a five- acre pond, we’re talking about doing some outdoor classrooms and a nature preserve area, where people can study different types of trees. We’ll have a little cabin onsite with posters/ displays of the area’s indigenous animals as an educational piece. We’re hoping to utilize the pond for things like our local firemen fishing rodeos to bring about community awareness. The site has a lot of potential as an educational tool, as well as for recreational activities.” The recreation center development encompasses 100 acres, with over 80 acres more reserved for future residential development. Another single- family housing development across town is bringing in 84 new units. With Samsung recently locating in Newberry, the city anticipates an influx families looking for homes in the years to come. That means more jobs, not only at the largest Kraft plant in North America, but also at