Once plans for the original Georgia Poultry Laboratory Network’s new headquarters were scrapped, poultry officials began plotting a new look, layout and uses for their home. “Anytime you have a setback, it gives you more time to think,” said Freddie Smith, project coordinator for GPLN. “We hate we had to wait, but it gave us time to think through a lot of things.” With the state’s recent purchase of land in North Hall for a new lab, officials now are eagerly planning the eventual move.
Poultry industry gears up for new lab