Cartersville-Bartow County Department of Economic Development Executive Director Melinda Lemmon, left, and board member Jessie Weaver, right, listen as Bartow-Cartersville Joint Development Authority Chairman James Jarrett discusses the organization’s return on investment at the Feb. 17 BCJDA meeting. Cartersville-Bartow County Department of Economic Development Executive Director Melinda Lemmon talks about job growth over the past 20 years at the Feb. 17 Bartow-Cartersville Joint Development Authority meeting. Bartow-Cartersville Joint Development Authority Chairman James Jarrett speaks with board members at the Feb. 17 BCJDA meeting. Bartow-Cartersville Joint Development Authority held its annual meeting Feb. 17 and used the opportunity to report on growth over the last 20 or so years. “The JDA was born in 2004,” said Chairman James Jarrett. “We had our first project in 2005, which was [Toyo Tires]. We made some projections around 2005 of what the next 20-25 years would look like.” According to data provided by the JDA, projections from 2005 showed $73 million in outflows, $90 million in projected inflows, and a projected return on investment of $17 million. The actual figures ar
