SOLARCYCLE is building, taking over a building, and now is grabbing a couple more pieces of property in the Northside Industrial Park for their forthcoming operations.

The Development Authority of Polk County unanimously approved the sale of another parcel of land to SOLARCYCLE, this time so they will have room to keep solar panels to be recycled until they are ready to go through their patented delamination process.

Officials during the February 14 session held at 8 a.m. voted to approve the sale contingent upon another piece of property being approved for sale by the Cedartown Development Authority that would connect the two.

SOLARCYCLE will also have to move some utilities around and build an access road via the CDA parcel to access the piece approved for purchase during the morning session.

The DAPC sold the property for $100,000 to SOLARCYCLE. It marks the latest round of purchase from the company locating east coast operations in Cedartown with building set to start this year.

SOLARCYCLE announced their intentions to buy up most of the York property purchase in early 2024 with intentions of building a solar panel recycling facility and include glass production as a material source for solar panel manufacturers.

They then added to that announcement in October with the purchase of the old Gildan Yarn facility in the Northside Industrial Park, providing them with a pre-built facility to get started with recycling operations as soon as possible. The new purchase approved today provides them with space they’ll need to keep discarded solar panels ready for recycling in a spot near the plant. The forthcoming purchase from the CDA will then give them additional access for a driveway to bring trucks in and out of the storage yard.

DAPC CEO and President Chris Thomas went over estimates of the economic impact of the SOLARCYCLE deal during a 2024 Year in Review update, which totaled hundreds of millions of dollars in direct and indirect investment in the community and at least 1,100 new jobs set to be created in the coming years through construction and when the facility comes online. Additional jobs could also be created from the variety of services provided both to SOLARCYCLE directly and indirectly to employees living in and around Polk County.