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Location, Location, Location! Jobs, Jobs, Jobs!
Where will Carbon Motors locate its headquarters, research & development, production center, sales, etc.? Now that the word is out that Carbon Motors will be unveiling the E7 demonstration vehicle to the nation sometime this year (cross fingers), we have been taking some interesting meetings. Given the $3 billion positive economic impact and 10,000 new direct and indirect American jobs that the Carbon Campus will generate over a ten year period, it’s no surprise that so many people are interested to see where we will end up calling home.
The rumor mill is churning, too. Some reporters have been guessing that we will put the Carbon Campus in Metro Atlanta somewhere – perhaps even in Clayton County at Ft. Gillem (U.S. Military Base). Others have suggested Athens, Georgia. And yes, every time we stop in Savannah, it is always ‘boy, do we have some land to show you!”. And yet others have asked about the possibility of a brownfield site in Atlanta itself (Fulton County – seems like Ford and GM just left town having closed their respective plants)?
When I met with Secretary Tom Ridge (former head U.S. Dept of Homeland Security – he’s just joined our Advisory Board), he said that if he was still governor of Pennsylvania he would do everything in his power to get us to move there. Interesting.
Stay tuned.
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I vote for Athens. It would be nice to have more than two major employers here, and your facility would bring a much-needed labor market to town. Plus, land is cheap, and Athens is the best small town in the state (trust me, I lived in Atlanta for over 12 years: ATL is nice, but Athens is better.)
Keep up the great work Bill - we need more people like you!!!
I vote for Fort Wayne, IN.
Having a major Homeland Security company in the Atlanta region would be a very positive and welcome development, given the latest news with regard to Georgia Pacific, Ford, GM, Delta etc. We desperately need a success story like this. All the good news comes from foreign companies. This is a big idea whose time has come and I would love to see it happen right here in Atlanta.
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