Expect these ripple effects that Ford Motor Co.'s $11.4 billion investment in West TN and Kentucky will have in our backyard

Expect these ripple effects that Ford Motor Co.'s $11.4 billion investment in West TN and Kentucky will have in our backyard

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Nashville sits almost equally in between the two pieces of this week's massive economic development announcement from Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F). The company is spending $5.6 billion to create an electric vehicle manufacturing campus at the Memphis Regional Megasite, and another $5.8 billion to build two battery plants just south of Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Combined, that's 10,800 jobs within a two-hour-plus drive. Several people we spoke with expect Greater Nashville to feel the effects — here's…

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