THOMASVILLE — The Thomasville City Council is scheduled to take up a new industrial park development that would be located near Thomasville Regional Airport during its Monday meeting.

The 150-acre site is adjacent to Country Oaks Golf Course on Ga. Hwy. 122 about five miles outside Thomasville. The proposed name for the site is Landing Green — Landing for the airport and Green because the land once was part of Greenwood Plantation.

The plan calls for naming streets in the development for airplanes on which airmen trained here during World War II.

It would be the city’s first new industrial development in 25 years, said Councilman Roy Campbell, who is also chairman of the Thomasville Payroll Development Authority, which has agreed to purchase the land.

“It’s something that we need,” Campbell said.

Under the proposal approved in April by the payroll authority, that entity will purchase the land at the site that is currently owned by the city and Thomas County, Campbell said. Like the last industrial development, the proposed industrial park would accommodate about 28 sites for smaller companies.

“What we have gone after are industries that have 50, 60, 80, 100 people,” he said. “That way if they go out of business or move, it’s not such a big blow on the economy. The last seven industries we signed here — one was an expansion — they were mostly people that needed five, six or eight acres and employed about 75 employees.”

Campbell said he is not sure how much money will be needed to develop the site, but estimated that a sewage treatment plant, whose treated water would be used for irrigation at the golf course, likely would cost about $300,000. Water and electric service are available for the site.

“There are some grants that area available through he state of Georgia and the federal government,” he said.

Engineering work and surveying has been done, and sites will be located around wetlands and a creek that runs through the property, Campbell said.

Land in the site likely will sell for about $5,500 an acre, and all proceeds from sales would go to the airport authority, Campbell said.

He said he plans to ask the council to approve the deal as an emergency measure, meaning final approval could be granted Monday if council members support the plan without having a second reading at a subsequent meeting.

Don Sims, president of the Thomasville-Thomas County Chamber of Commerce, said the site is a good one for companies that need convenient airport access, such as Dean Steel, a manufacturer of metal commercial buildings that already is located at the site.

“That’s better suited for industries that are not dependent on large quantities of water and sewer needs,” Sims said. “It presents some real good opportunities primarily for small industrial applications. It is good to have that in the inventory.”

However, another closer-to-current-development site also is a prime need for future industrial development in the county, he said.