Pivotal Manufacturing Partners acquired 140 acres of land at the former planned Phipps Bend Nuclear Plant in Hawkins County, Tennessee. Pivotal executed a long-term ground lease with Highland Materials, a polysilicon manufacturer, which plans to develop a world-class, $1 billion advanced manufacturing facility on a portion of the site.

The broader property—the Phipps Bend Advanced Manufacturing & Technology Campus—is planned as a high-power, heavy infrastructure destination designed to support mission-critical operators requiring scale, high-power infrastructure, flexible zoning, and streamlined execution. The campus offers direct on-site access to a major TVA-owned regional transmission interconnect, the primary regional power distribution hub for Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia, and benefits from a nuclear-industrial historical overlay and development-friendly permitting environment.

Pivotal and Highland are working closely with local, regional, and federal stakeholders—including Hawkins County, the Tennessee Valley Authority, Holston Electric Cooperative, and the State of Tennessee—to deliver infrastructure, incentives, and economic development to support the campus’s near-term and long-term phases.