Posted on 01/11/2018 12:21:13 AM PST by SMGFan
Good news: Toyota and Mazda announce giant new Huntsville, Alabama, plant which will produce over 300,000 cars and SUV’s a year and employ 4000 people. Companies are coming back to the U.S. in a very big way. Congratulations Alabama!
11:29 PM - 10 Jan 2018
If you do the math estimates with the four-thousand employees at the plant...there’s probably another three-thousand jobs locally that filter down through this. More home construction, etc.
One should note as well...the mayor of Huntsville (Tommy Battle, GOP) has been awful active since assuming the office in 2008, in creating jobs. Toss in Remington, GE Aviation, and Polaris...along with dozens of small companies...well over 5,000 jobs created. The TEDAC project at Redstone will result in 4,000 FBI-related jobs over the next decade coming into the area.
Battle is up for the governor’s race in November, and at age 62...might be a Presidential candidate in 2024.
>> there’s probably another three-thousand jobs locally that filter down through this.
Excellent point.
I would imagine more than 3000
Grocery stores clerks school teachers, police and fire personnel, Restaurants, construction, and then those jobs create more jobs This is a huger win for that area.
Alabama at risk of losing a seat in Congress after 2020 census
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>> Grocery stores clerks school teachers, police, ...
And fewer families going to sleep with financial fears. Huge win indeed!
Huntsville is a nice area. Long history of high tech from the days of the Redstone Arsenal, NASA, etc.
Plus construction jobs.
I assume the workers will not be exposed to the red menace of the UAW.
Most of these big job producing projects end up going to Huntsville and Mobile. It is a shame that the leadership in between can’t bring in anything on that scale.
With good reason: Huntsville and Mobile, AL have the infrastructure in place for large-scale ground transportation, thanks to Huntsville supporting rocket development since the late 1940’s and Mobile, AL being a large seaport.
Huntsville it is. Congratulations to the citizens even though a CEO would have to be crazy as a loon to consider either Birmmingham or Montgomery.
A former Huntsville city planner, Dallas Fanning, told me that Huntsville learned a very important lesson in the early 70s when the space program and the anti-ballistic missile programs both crashed at the same time. Unemployment sky rocketed. Huntsville learned to diversity it’s employment base across both military and civilian.
I was fortunate that the military brought me to Huntsville in the mid-70s. Absolutely great place to live.
I grew up in the 70s in the region (west of Huntsville). When I go back to the region, I’m often surprised how things have changed and improved. A kid who grows up in this region today, and gets a background/degree in a technology field, is virtually guaranteed a job for the rest of is life in Huntsville.
Toss in the moderate weather, relative low crime, reasonable tax base, improving school system, and airport situation (local, and Nashville only an hour away)...it’s a great area. Only negative is hot July weather, tornado warnings, and snakes.
Rocket City Rednecks!
I would imagine Tennessee benefits too, as Huntsville’s only 19 miles south of the border.
I wish they had built this further south, were jobs are desperately needed, such as Montgomery east to Tuskegee, then southeast to Eufaula then southwest to Dothan then west to Evergreen. This area is a big chunk of the Black Belt.
Alabama and Georgia are both doing well with the Automotive
industry to include assembly, parts, etc.
Please tell me these are NOT union jobs.
Paying employees over $68 an hour at GM—before Obama stole the company—isn’t worthy.
Alabama is a right to work State. The reason that most of the foreign auto companies end up in the South is because of right to work.
Huntsville makes sense. Home the Redstone Arsenal, lots of engineers and scientists. Think chemical weapons, ballistic missile development (Wernher von Braun), NASA space missions, etc.
Huntsville makes sense. Home the Redstone Arsenal, lots of engineers and scientists. Think chemical weapons, ballistic missile development (Wernher von Braun), NASA space missions, etc.
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