County to sell property formerly slated for shrimp-processing company
Lazaro Aleman
ECB Publishing, Inc.
County officials have declared a 10-acre parcel at the industrial park as surplus property, preparatory to selling it to the highest bidder.
The 10-acre parcel, located on the west side of U.S. 19 in the industrial park, was once intended for Natural Shrimp, a Texas-based aqua-tech company that planned to set up a shrimp-processing plant locally as part of its planned expansion.
The company had developed what it called “a patented proprietary technology f