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Saturday, February 18, 2017

Contract for sale of property for Shooting Sports Park approved by city council

Crossville city council approved a sales agreement to transfer part of the city's Dorton area landfill property to the non-profit group that will operate the new shooting sports park once it is built.

City attorney Will Ridley and county officials have been working on the agreement for several weeks to try and put the deal together to allow the project to move forward with an attraction that proponents hope will attract tournaments and and shooters from Middle and East Tennessee.

City council video discussion on shooting sports park property sale


Council,man Danny Wyatt moved that the contract be approved with the provision that if the funding for the project is not received by December 31, 2017 that the property will revert back to the city. The contact already included a provision that should the property stop being used as a shooting park that the property would also revert back to the ownership of the city.

Wyatt's motion was supported by councilwoman Pamala Harris. With no calls for any further discussion, the motion was approved with four votes in favor. Councilman J. H. Graham was absent from the meeting.



The city charter requires a 30 day advertising period before the sale can become final. The total acreage to be transferred is 146 of the approximately 218 acres originally purchased by the city for use as a landfill. Some 37 acres was used for a landfill but was closed many years ago and remains under the auspices of the state environmental department for monitoring.


The shooting sports park has been under discussion for almost 2 years with funding coming from the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency using money comes from the federal excise tax on ammunition.  

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