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arrives, it’s put onto a vehicle. Now the plant, itself,
is 2.4 million square feet, so you’d think there would
be a lot of room to store things, but it’s all production
space. So, tractor-trailer units will deliver parts to this
facility and then these parts will be taken via an inter-
nal roadway system directly from the Logistics Center
over to the plant to be placed onto vehicles. It’s a pret-
ty significant event - not only for the City of Wentzville,
but for the region. It will provide 400 net new jobs for
the community.”
According to Lang, some of the other private invest-
ments that have occurred recently in Wentzville in-
clude a new, four-story Hampton Inn, a new B&B Movie
Theatre in the Wentzville Bluffs development, a new
Camping World outlet, and a $10 million outpatient
healthcare facility constructed by the SSM Health of
St. Louis.
Revitalizing Wentzville’s downtown is also the respon-
sibility of the Economic Development Department, and
the city has adopted a Downtown Revitalization Study
which guides redevelopment in the Village Center
