Spartanburg County Council on April 22 approved two tax-incentive packages tied to new manufacturing and headquarters investment in the county, using the state’s standard fee-in-lieu-of-tax (FILOT) and special-source-credit tools to lower the property-tax bill for two companies in exchange for job creation.
The first package covers Delta Power Equipment Corporation, a South Carolina corporation that plans to establish a headquarters office and distribution facility at 2651 New Cut Road in Spartanburg (Spartanburg County tax parcel 6-06-00-045.02). Under the ordinance authorizing a Special Source Credit Agreement with the county, Delta Power has represented an expected aggregate investment of at least $4,500,000 and the creation of at least 10 new full-time jobs. In return, the county has agreed to provide infrastructure credits against the company’s fee-in-lieu-of-tax payments of $25,000 per year for two consecutive years, subject to Delta Power meeting the investment target.
The second package, identified in council documents as Project Piedmont, is a larger FILOT agreement for a manufacturing project in Spartanburg County. Per the authorizing resolution, the Company has requested that the county enter into a fee-in-lieu-of-tax agreement tied to an expected investment of at least $14,500,000 in non-exempt property and the expected creation of approximately 64 new full-time jobs with benefits, to be achieved by December 31 of the fifth year after any portion of the project is first placed in service. The FILOT structure sets the assessment ratio at 6 percent — versus the standard 10.5 percent industrial rate — for the project property, and includes a special-source tax credit of $300,000 applied in increments against future fee payments.
Both deals use the Multi-County Park Act framework that Spartanburg County has used for years with adjoining counties (Union County is named in the Delta Power documents) to enable industrial-park benefits for qualifying projects. Neither credit pledges the county’s full faith and credit — the infrastructure-credit obligations are limited to the fee payments the county actually receives from the projects, a standard protection in South Carolina economic-development agreements.
Combined, the two packages are expected to support the creation of about 270 manufacturing jobs in Spartanburg County — a figure that includes the combined direct and associated jobs across both deals. The two packages come against the backdrop of the council’s high-profile February decision to reject tax incentives for the proposed Project Spero data center, a reminder that the council has been active in approving incentives for traditional manufacturing projects while pulling back on large-scale data-center deals pending state-level regulation.
Sources: Spartanburg County ordinance authorizing the Delta Power Equipment Corporation Special Source Credit Agreement (spartanburgcounty.gov) and Spartanburg County resolution authorizing the Project Piedmont FILOT (spartanburgcounty.gov), both on the April 22, 2026 council agenda.
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