CLARKSVILLE TENNESSEE - CLARKSVILLE Homes and Real Estate For Sale

1. Austin Peay University 

Clarksville is home to Austin Peay State University, one of Tennessee's outstanding public universities. With its beautiful, park-like campus, APSU is adjacent to Clarksville's central business district. Founded in 1927 and named for native son Gov. Austin Peay, APSU is a progressive university, offering high-quality undergraduate, graduate, and pre-professional programs.

APSU offers:

Diverse Degree Programs: Offering 57 majors with different areas of concentration allowing students to earn a bachelor's, master's, or education specialist's degree.

Diverse Degree Programs: Also offering 199 online courses, 13 degrees, and one distance-based master's degree.

New Facilities: A first-class science-education complex, University Center, village-style housing, and a new 75,000-square-foot recreation center.

Athletics: Teams compete in the Ohio Valley Conference in 16 competitive sports.

Centers of Excellence: Two Accomplished Centers of Excellence (creative arts and biology) and four Chairs of Excellence (creative arts, nursing, and two in business).

Constructed in 2002, the 180,000-square-foot Sundquist Science Complex is one of the South's premier science education facilities. With more than 40 "smart" classrooms, state-of-the art labs and wireless Internet access. It also features a zoological museum, herbarium, interactive TV classroom and the Robert F. Sears Memorial Planetarium . With a price tag in excess of $38 million, it represents one of the largest capital appropriations ever in Tennessee for a single classroom building.

2. Large Miltary Base on the KY & TN border

3. We have a Proposed New Marina, water park, 3000 seat amphithre Oct 2010 3 2million dollar project

4. California Investor to fund $150,000,000 (million) dollar mall 150 stores Oak Grove KY

5. Hemlock to invest $1.2 billion for polysilicon plant

After a two-year global site search, Dow Corning and the Hemlock group opted to make a $1.2 billion initial investment in the construction of a new polycrystalline silicon (polysilicon) manufacturing and development facility. Polysilicon is key to the development of the solar industry. Groundbreaking on the new plant is expected in early 2009. Creating up to 1,000 jobs in construction and related crafts during the building phase; the facility is earmarked to open in 2012.

Polysilicon is used in the production of everything from cell phone and computers to solar panels. The total investment by Hemlock in Clarksville will be at least $2.5 billion and at its onset of production will initially produce 10,000 metric tons of capacity at the site, with the potential to expand to a production level of 21,000 metric tons. When the site is ready in 2012, some 500 permanent jobs will be created, with a potential increase to 800 when expanded. Construction of the site will employ 1,000 workers over a five to seven year period.

Military Base located on the Kentucky Tennessee border " Ft Campbell Ky Kentucky/ Clarksville TN "

One of the key factors in Clarksville's growth is the relationship which it has with adjoining Fort Campbell, Kentucky, home of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR), 5th Special Forces Group and 101st Corps Support Group. The 101st Airborne Division is one of the most powerful and prestigious divisions, having made a name for itself during World War II as the Screaming Eagles in Bastogne, Market Garden, Holland. Today, the highly trained soldiers of the 101st are the world's only Air Assualt Division. The 101st participates in peacekeeping and humanitarian missions at home and abroad.

Over 30,000 soldiers and 55,000 family members call Fort Campbell home. The installation manages the records of some 4,000 civilians, with approximately $2.5 billion per year, making it the largest employer in both Tennessee and Kentucky.

• Active Duty 30,865
• Officers 2,602
• Family Members 62,723
• Civilian Employment 4,356
• Public Works Activities $4.5 Billion
• Annual Payroll $2.49 Billion

Source: Fort Campbell Public Affairs Office

Top 10 Best Cities for Relocating Families in the Mid-Sized Metro Areas Market - Worldwide ERC and Primacy Relocation (2006)

Top 20 Best Performing City in the Country’s 200 largest metros - Milken Institute (2006)

4th Least Expensive City in the Nation - CNN Money (2006)

One of the South’s Top 10 Places with Plenty of Talented Labor - Southern Business & Development (2006)

17th Fastest Growing City in the USA; 100 Fastest Growing Counties in the USA - US Census Bureau(2006)

 Highest Median Household Income of all major cities in Tennessee -

Top 100 Real Estate Markets - Money Magazine (June 2005)

 4th Best Place for Affordable Living - Business Development Outlook (February 2005)

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