An unnamed manufacturer is considering expanding operations at a facility in Piedmont Triad West Corporate Park in Mount Airy, sources say.

“It’s a bakery manufacturing company,” one source said Wednesday of a move which depends on a final decision by the industry involved.

The project is said to involve the site now occupied by Harvest Time Bread Co. of North Carolina, where an expanded operation would include about 200 total workers, according to the source. The facility containing Harvest Time formerly housed operations of Gerard’s Bakery.

Complete details were sketchy Wednesday due to the confidential nature of negotiations now under way in an effort to make the project a reality. There was one indication the move could involve a firm that has no presence in Surry County at this time, but this could not be confirmed.

About 80 people now work at Harvest Time Bread Co., located on Mountain View Lane, where more personnel are proposed to be added. Land is adjacent to the facility that would aid an expansion.

“I do feel good about it,” a source added of the prospects for a favorable decision by the company.

In the meantime, the Mount Airy Board of Commissioners — during a meeting tonight at 7 p.m. — will consider setting a public hearing regarding an incentives package assembled for the new industrial prospect, appropriately known as “Project Dough.”

That incentives package could total $292,256, according to documents prepared by City Manager Don Brookshire. It includes a transfer of land held jointly by Mount Airy and Surry County with a value to the city of $230,911.

The remainder of the package includes a tax incentive grant amounting to 45 percent of property taxes that would be paid by the company over a five-year period, not to exceed $61,345. It is proposed that the public hearing on the incentives be conducted at a board meeting on Dec. 3.

In keeping with other recent economic-development plans, county officials likely would match what Mount Airy is offering, and the state could provide incentives as well.

Although the source said that 200 total jobs could result from the project, documents prepared by Brookshire indicate that 86 jobs are now proposed to be retained and another 38 added. It would involve a $4.5 million investment by the company.

Piedmont Triad West Corporate Park now contains several businesses and another, Central States Manufacturing, is constructing a plant that will open next spring.

City and county officials also are trying to market two remaining prime sites at the park.

Contact Tom Joyce at tjoyce@mtairynews.com or at 719-1924.