Posted on 08/20/2019 12:39:56 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In the next month or two, 1,000 employees will come to work in Greenwood, making Amazon the largest manufacturing employer — and one of the largest employers — in Johnson County.
Amazon officials announced Wednesday hiring has started at its new Greenwood facility, and employees will report to work in the coming months, but the company would not specify an opening date.
The company is already interviewing potential candidates, said Andre Woodson, a company spokesperson. “Typically, we begin interviewing candidates one to two months prior to launch,” he said Wednesday. “But Day 1 is still TBD.”
The mostly factory jobs will pay at least $15 an hour given that Amazon raised its minimum wage around the same time the company announced it would be building a facility in Greenwood. With the cost of benefits factored in, the hourly wage is expected to be more than $18 an hour.
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Statement coming from Occasional Cortex? Crickets!!
Man when I saw the headline, I thought it was going to be in Greenland!
No details given on the tax breaks offered.
FYI, if bribery worked Upstate NY would be an economic powerhouse.
It isn’t.
Not far from me. Not a bad deal. A bonus is they won’t be shipping in gobs of libs. Really glad we didn’t get HQ2.
The city approved two 10-year tax breaks on property taxes for the building and equipment. The location that Amazon chose is where a proposed FedEx distribution center was planned before that company backed out. Amazon swooped in while the property was zoned industrial and secured a deal.
Amazon is investing $45 million in real property improvements and $35 million in equipment. The city will still receive about $5 million in real property taxes over the life of the abatement, and about $1.3 million in personal property taxes.
The company also agreed to pay for several road projects in the area to accommodate increased traffic once it opens this fall. Those improvements include widening Graham and Collins roads, adding turn lanes and passing blisters along Allen Road and building a new road, which will run east and west and connect Graham and Collins roads. They have since also committed to a new traffic signal at Worthsville and Collins roads, which is in development and will also be paid for by Amazon.
I argue without detailed info on the tax breaks given its impossible to make an informed decision.
And that when info is deliberately withheld, it’s usually not a good sign.
NYS has literally poured billions down the bribery blackhole.
It doesn’t work.
Of course it works. It's a great way to have the public provide the money that gets funneled to Leftist organizations.
This is no more corrupt than usual for my area. As I said, not a bad deal.
I hate abatements and tif districts but they are everywhere around here.
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