Governor Mark Sanford is scheduled to make a stop in the upstate with a major announcement on the job front tomorrow.

We told you weeks ago about plans to build a massive Walgreens distribution center in Anderson. Now we've learned that it's the focus of Governor Sanford's visit to the upstate.

The new Walgreens store in Anderson will bring about 25 to 30 jobs. But that's just the beginning of what Walgreens' officials have planned for the area.

County leaders officially announced that the Walgreens distribution center will be located at Interstate 85 and Highway 81 in Anderson at the Alliance Industrial Park. It's a $175,000,000 project that they have been working on for more than a year and it will bring more than 450, much needed, jobs.

Stephanie Ines is a thirty-two-year-old single mother with three kids. She doesn't spend hours looking for a job by herself. She brings her 5-year-old son, DJ, with her so he'll get an early start gaining computer skills. You can say being out of work has taught Stephanie more lessons than one. 

"We stay with my mom and dad. They're on disability. We're trying to make ends meet, I'm trying to find a job of any sort, anything," says Ines.

People pack the unemployment office day in and day out in Anderson. Mothers, fathers, some are single but others
are struggling to support an entire household.

"it's very hard because you get doors shot in your face everywhere you go. You go here and you go there and still there's no progress, says Douglas Willaims.

We've told you about the new Walgreens store coming to Anderson and the pharmacy's giants plan to build a massive distribution center in the area. we're told that that all adds up to hundreds of jobs in the upstate.

People like Stephanie hope they have a shot so they can start paving the way for their children.

"Anderson needs it desparately and when you hear something really big coming in, jobs coming in you think 'yes, finally'. Maybe I'll have a chance of making something for myself and my kids", says Ines.

"It's exiting but you have to realize that there are so many people without jobs now it's almost impossible to get in there," says Williams.

A lot of the Walgreens expansion of the past year has been in the Carolinas and this distribution center that will be in Anderson will serve most of the region including most of the Southeast because the closest distribution like it is in Orlando.

We'll tell what Mark Sanford has to say about all of these jobs coming to the area after he makes his announcement tomorrow at 10:30 AM.

If you're looking for work in Greenwood good news may be just around the corner. Right now County Council is hearing from economic development leaders about an incentive program for an existing industry that wants to expand. Leaders tell News Channel 7 that if it's approved the deal would bring more jobs to the area. We'll also have more details tonight on News Channel 7 at 11.