So my advice is to plant some trees and wait.

Just last week I read in the news a huge manufacturing plant will be built not far from me in about a year and now I wonder if I should step up my time line.Also thinking of changing focus to single family homes. 

He was friendly but mainly there to keep people from stealing plants and things in the night that were kept outside.

I work at the Nuclear power plant so my schedule is weird and offers me a lot of time off during the week days.

The SOW includes the following:Removal of tub wall tileShower wall tile installation12"x24" tiles to ceilingInstall of frameless sliding glass doornew shower liner and panbacker board installWaterproof membrane all inner areasNew faucet installcenter drain installshower nichepopcorn ceiling removalnew texture and paint on valls and ceilingbathroom floor installSame 12"x24" tilebaseboard installnew vent and heater installInstall GFCI outletI was budgeting anywhere from 2,000-4,000 for this work (materials + labor) but both quotes have come in much higher- $10,000 and $8,500.My question is, are these reasonable quotes for the area?

Intel is a great example, who is building the largest chip manufacturing plant in the US right here, and it will be a $20 billion dollar investment that brings a few new thousand jobs.https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2022/01/21/intel-ohio-building-computer-chip-factories-licking-county-jersey-township/9173472002/ Here are a few more recent investments https://www.10tv.com/article/money/business/hydrogen-power-company-hyperion-bringing-700-jobs-to-columbus/530-25907aab-5517-4661-a9f3-d2ed2d5be6b0 https://news.wosu.org/news/2022-02-08/rumpke-to-build-50-million-recycling-facility-in-columbu

It has some interesting texture and the walls are painted green.

Protests at, I think, Hershey bottled water plant already occurred. 

You must plant seed after seed after seed.

I worked as the plant accountant for a foundry for 5 years.