To prepare for future industry ,what looks like just a 100-acre empty field right now will soon be transformed into one of the region’s largest available industrial development, right in the hills of Hawkins County.Lot 17 of the Phipps Bend Industrial Park is being prepared to become the biggest shovel-ready development site in the region.“This particular lot is approximately 100 acres, and so it would be the largest site really in Northeast Tennessee from Knoxville in this direction,” Larry Elkins, Chairman of the Phipps Bend Joint Venture and Hawkins County Industrial Development Boards said.