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Boeing picks 15 potential sites nationwide to build 777X
Seattle Times ^ | November 23, 2013 | Dominic Gates

Posted on 11/23/2013 11:49:51 AM PST by jazusamo

Boeing has issued a formal request for proposals (RFP) to 15 locations around the United States that will bid for the work of building its forthcoming 777X jet, according to a source close to the discussions.

Washington state is one of the 15 sites under consideration. The others include both existing Boeing locations and new “greenfield” sites, the source said.

Boeing spokesman Doug Alder confirmed Saturday that the RFPs were sent out late Friday afternoon and into the evening.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: 777x; boeing; build; nationwide; picks; potential; sites; unions
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To: GeronL

Wanna bet that the site to be chosen is not on that list? Its the way corporations do things while they cut their deal with the future winner. Keeps speculators out of the loop and unions out of their hair. The winner will be the state that kicks in with the most perks and tax bennies. Its money that talks. Factories can be built anywhere.


21 posted on 11/23/2013 12:14:41 PM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Vince Ferrer
Dallas has an old Air Force base right in town that the Air Force gave to the city and isn’t being used right now. The city is trying to sell it.

Actually, Navy, not Air Force. And the city always owned it. When the Navy moved out, they let the basements of several buildings flood and chopped the landing light wires underwater in the lake to vandalize the place before they let it revert back to the city.

22 posted on 11/23/2013 12:15:05 PM PST by PAR35
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To: jttpwalsh

Why would they want to go to California? Costs ( utility, etc) are soooo much higher..


23 posted on 11/23/2013 12:15:50 PM PST by ken5050 (Benghazi investigation update: "The plot thickens, like Hillary Clinton's ankles.." (longfellow")
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To: jazusamo
Will Obunga's Marxist laden Fed. Labor board be getting involved? I'm not sure about the criteria is for there involvement, but I'm sure they will pull a law out of thin air to try to put the clamps on the 777 being built outside of Seattle.
24 posted on 11/23/2013 12:16:48 PM PST by DAC21
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To: jazusamo

As a shareholder, I hope Boeing picks South Carolina. It would increase margins and profitability.


25 posted on 11/23/2013 12:17:09 PM PST by freedom1st
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To: jttpwalsh

Agreed, I believe the union in CA would be tickled to work with Boeing to save jobs there.


26 posted on 11/23/2013 12:17:23 PM PST by jazusamo ([Obama] A Truly Great Phony -- Thomas Sowell http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3058949/posts)
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To: DAC21

It’s a good possibility the new commie NLRB of 0bama’s will get involved.


27 posted on 11/23/2013 12:19:24 PM PST by jazusamo ([Obama] A Truly Great Phony -- Thomas Sowell http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3058949/posts)
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To: Vince Ferrer

Roswell, NM is a fantastic place. America still grasps to life there.

Problem with 777X production would come from the fact that we are talking final assembly rather than true production here. Lots of parts made overseas, being shipped in, and, then combined for the final product. Makes a far inland place like Roswell not so good considering trucking wings and other sum-assemblies in from Houston or Galveston.

Long Beach, with its infrastructure, would seem an ideal place for such a project but the union seems dead set against gaining any further work. Pity. So Cal could use it.


28 posted on 11/23/2013 12:19:28 PM PST by FAA
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To: GeronL
How many potential sites are even possible in this country to build something like that? Are there even 15?

One must understand that we aren't talking about huge factories where they build the whole plane from the ground up.

The 777 is built in subunits (about 50,000 SUBUNITS) that (currently) are built in a variety of countries.

Here, for example, is a chart showing the countries that build subunits for the 787.


29 posted on 11/23/2013 12:19:51 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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30 posted on 11/23/2013 12:23:32 PM PST by jazusamo ([Obama] A Truly Great Phony -- Thomas Sowell http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3058949/posts)
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To: austinaero
Perry prolly IS piping up about Texas, on this.

He's got a lot of Texas Enterprise $$ to offer and the old/retired (/) Kelly AFB, adjacent to Randolph AFB, is there (San Antone).

31 posted on 11/23/2013 12:24:09 PM PST by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: 1rudeboy; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Heh heh...


32 posted on 11/23/2013 12:24:11 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: FAA
Problem with 777X production would come from the fact that we are talking final assembly rather than true production here.

True, however, that would not exclude anywhere along the great lakes or Mississippi.

33 posted on 11/23/2013 12:25:06 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: GeronL

With a mayor being one of obama’s butt buddies and socialist pals?


34 posted on 11/23/2013 12:25:48 PM PST by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: UCANSEE2

Wholly crap why so much outsourcing? Is the Euro community holding Boeing hostage? “Better let us in on the action, otherwise good luck selling your planes to Euro Airlines”??

I hate GE but certainly they could be building engines vs what I assume is Rolls Royce?


35 posted on 11/23/2013 12:25:54 PM PST by DAC21
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To: DAC21

What about Pratt and Whitney engines?


36 posted on 11/23/2013 12:27:22 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: jazusamo

Yes, that seems to be the prevailing sentiment - not an abundance of good paying jobs here, these days.


37 posted on 11/23/2013 12:28:40 PM PST by jttpwalsh
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To: DAC21
Wholly crap why so much outsourcing?

A compromise to political reality that Boeing sells to many of these countries. "See we're practically Japanese/Turkish/Chinese etc anyway..."

38 posted on 11/23/2013 12:29:20 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: SandRat
Re: 5

The bottom 4 on that list make sense. The first two have a good talent pool available, but the Government regulations and taxes in those States should dissuade anyone from building new factories in those areas. Also, the Unions probably also are dominant in those two areas - thus providing another strong reason to pick from the bottom four.

39 posted on 11/23/2013 12:29:40 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: 1rudeboy

A$$wipe interstate free trade is what it is all about. I have no clue what you are insinuating with your insipid post.


40 posted on 11/23/2013 12:29:57 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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