New Dell manufacturing plant in N.C. to employ at least 1,500

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Nov 9th, 2004 | Gary D. Robertson (AP)

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

Dell Inc. said Tuesday that it would build its third U.S. manufacturing plant in North Carolina, employing at least 1,500 people within five years.

The new facility, scheduled to open in the fall of 2005 at a site to be determined, will produce desktop computers.

[jb6]

NC might be a red state but it keeps reelecting Tax Hike Easly, 3 tax hikes in one term, spent $250 million profit off of the tax on lottos (we don't have a lotto, the state senate shot that down.....ooops), took back 7% from the universities, etc and still the money keeps disappearing along with the jobs.

[alancarp]

Not real awesome, but it will be welcomed in this part of NC. Here's the deal: the state of NC has provided $242 MILLION in incentives to Dell in order to do this. Dell's requirement is to provide around 2,000 (not 1,500 as the article suggests) jobs in a computer manufacturing plant. That's a lot of taxpayer overhead.

Now these jobs are expected to average $28,000 apiece -- not quite even the average salary in the state. Nonetheless, the impact of this plant is expected (by those supporting this gig and the state's $$$ infusion) to also spur the creation of up to 6,000 "support" jobs in the area.

A few years ago, FedEx was similarly bribed with $141 million in tax credits and such to put in a new shipping hub in Greensboro (same region as this Dell plant will be located). They're finally under construction after numerous regulatory and court issues. Their number are around 1400 direct and 4000 indirect jobs - roughly the same economic levels.

So it is likely that the Traid area (Winston-Salem/Greensboro/High Point) of NC may start a boom time during the next 2-3 years. It would be nice, but I do wonder "at what price".

[Hermann the Cherusker]

Better call Willie Green over.

[pogo101]

No doubt NC is far from perfect, but the view of it from here in L.A. is pretty good relatively speaking. Dell seems to think it's not bad compared to allll those blue states!

[jb6]

Considering that Nortal laid off some 17,000 people in this state, Lucient is all but gone, Cisco and IBM first flooded in Indians and now are moving whole sale to India (IBM alone is moving 8,000 jobs there and my friends at IBM are all doing their damnedest to keep under the radar), textiles is gone, pulp and paper isn't doing to well and the government keeps cutting tobacco credits, while Tax Hike Easily just got reelected. Oh and as for little things like say tuition: my MBA just went up 90% this year and next year is going up 70% from this years total and that's at a State university.

We also had a huge amount of dot coms, all gone.

Furniture plants are flying out of business in record numbers, nothing like a little China for that.

Yes, one plant opens for 1,500 jobs (costing the state $250 million in subsidies) and that's worth celebrating?

[LS]

Ping Willie Green. His computer never seems to find plant opening stories.

[eagle11]

Del to add 1500 jobs + Honda adding 600 US jobs....Aaah....the evils of tax breaks for the rich....

[jb6]

Dell is getting $250 million in subsidies, more then makes up for the cost of the plant and running it for quite a while. The poor suckers, us people, will have higher gas taxes, property taxes, etc. As if the damn Mexicans weren't driving up my property tax enough (and they are).

[SoDak]

There were rumours about them opening a location here in Sioux Falls, perhaps as an in-your-face gesture to Gateway and Ted Waitt, which is currently in a death spiral.

[talleyman]

We're doomed!

[jb6]

At the cost of $30,000 per job. We the people paid their salaries. Better idea, lower those damn taxes across the board and for the frigging feds to put some protectionist tarrifs on slave labor imports.

[Liberalism=MentalDisorder]

Oh great! That is 1500 more illegal aliens that will be able to make money to send home to Mexico! Super!

[ArrogantBustard]

Maybe there's a connection between this:

while Tax Hike Easily just got reelected.

And companies leaving the State. Hmmm ... That's one reason I always vote against all tax increases and bond issues, and why local taxation is a big issue for men in State elections.

[rface]

ping

[jb6]

Problem is, we have a flood of frigging NYorkies, that's why Cary NC is called the Containment Area for Relocated Yankees. They love that little facist town where the city council dictates everything to you from the number of dogs to where you park your car to what is planted (it's next to Raleigh). They also don't mind the tax hikes, since it's still lower then the beautifual economic zone they came from. They are like locusts, liberal waves of economic migrating death: they land in green lands, vote in libs, raise taxes and destroy another state. Not to mention they don't like it here, they bitch and moan all the time about the culture and they try to turn it into mini-NY. I dated for quite some time a NY girl and she and her friends about drove me nuts.

[ArrogantBustard]

There's Yankees, and then there's damyankees ...

[pissant]

Or we don't want to offend willie too much, such that he goes away. He's fun to kick around.

[crymeariver]

Cary is actually a nice place to live. I'm a Michigander Yankee and I think this town is conservative compared to southeast Michigan. In my Cary neighborhood Bush/Cheney signs outnumbered Kerry/Edwards signs 5 to 1. Most Cary precincts went to Bush.

[ordinaryguy]

Manufacturing plant, or assembly plant.

I know that Dell assembles computers. What exactly do they manufacture?