Ya know, when we drive up to the Cape there are wind turbines along the highways headed that way. I always find it curious how our dog watches them and sinks back into the back seat a little frightened. She does NOT like them at all!
They’re horrendous and should never be part of any landscape.
Everything they want is ugly.
When Wexner stepped down from L Brands and out of the spotlight in 2020 amid scrutiny over his relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, many may have thought the retail mogul, now 86, was retiring after nearly six decades to quietly enjoy his billions. But, it turns out, he was just getting started. As new reporting by Forbes reveals, when local leaders didn’t have a site that fit the ultra specific conditions needed for chip production, which include access to millions of gallons of water a day, they reached out to Wexner’s New Albany Company. Within three days, it had come up with a proposal for the plot in Johnstown. “It wouldn’t have happened without them,” says J.P. Nauseef, the CEO of JobsOhio, the state’s private economic development group, which rustled up a $150 million grant that paid for the Intel land as part of a more than $2 billion incentive package.
This deal unlocked a flood of new opportunities for Central Ohio, as big tech outfits including Amazon, Meta and Google pledged more than $7 billion to expand their data center campuses in the area. It’s been a particular boon for Wexner, who bought up 3,500 acres – almost all in Licking County, which includes Johnstown and part of New Albany – for an estimated $340 million beginning in 2022; he then turned around and sold 830 acres to Intel for about $120 million and another 1,700 to other firms like Amazon and Microsoft for $400 million. According to a New Albany Company spokesperson, the company typically spends up to 30% to 50% of the cost of the land on, among other things, securing development entitlements and environmental permitting required to prepare land for development.