According to state business filings, Lundy and Elizabeth Neely are the incorporators for Bison Commercial Investments. Lundy Neely started water systems manufacturer Crown Solutions in Vandalia in the 1980s, a company that become part of Paris-based Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies. Neely left the company in 2013.
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Amber Holloway, Vandalia assistant city manager, said Monday that she’s not aware of any imminent plans for that land.
“We’ve had all kinds of talk about that property in the past,” Holloway said.
Earlier this month, Holloway and city officials said an unnamed manufacturing facility is looking to relocate and bring hundreds of jobs to Vandalia or another city.
“We really don’t know a whole lot about the company at this point or what they do outside of the fact that it is a manufacturing business and there’s a potential for 300 jobs to come to the city of Vandalia,” Holloway said earlier in July.
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Officials at the time said a company was considering property in the Northwoods Business Park.
“We are very early in the process,” Rich Hopkins, a city spokesman, said at the time. “We won’t know for a while which way the company will go.”
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