A Georgia county has filed a lawsuit seeking to force a company to sell land on which the county has long planned to build a launch pad for commercial rockets.

Commissioners in coastal Camden County said in a statement Thursday that Union Carbide Co.’s refusal to sell the 4,000-acre (1,600-hectare) property, if allowed to stand, “will cause the County the loss of the Spaceport Project as well as an enormous financial loss in excess of $11 million.”

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