Wisconsin is putting new job requirements on an up to $3 billion subsidy package for a Racine County flat-screen plant and drawing a personal guarantee from one of the world’s richest men, under a contract approved Wednesday behind closed doors. The WEDC board approved the deal, 8-2, after protesters shouted at the agency’s directors as they voted to go into a private session.
But the project still requires the approval of $764 million in local incentives for Foxconn and years of work on massive land deals and construction.
In exchange for the up to $3.8 billion in state and local incentives, Foxconn has promised to invest up to $10 billion to create up to 13,000 jobs at the plant. As a manufacturer in Wisconsin, Foxconn will pay little if any taxes on the profits that factory generates.
2017
Wisconsin 3,000 jobs to start, and projected 13,000 Wisconsin workers, a promised investment of $10 billion by Foxconn’s chairman, Terry Gou, factory would be 20 million square feet. The plan is to break ground in 2018 and open in 2020.
2014
Foxconn signed a letter of intent to invest up to $1 billion in Indonesia. It appears that investment still has not occurred.
2013:
Foxconn announces a $30 million factory in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 2013 and hire 500 workers. In 2014, as the Pennsylvania deal was quietly dying, Gou teased the opening of a LCD display factory in the states. His company talked with officials in Colorado and Arizona. Nothing happened.”
2011
Brazil, where Foxconn spoke of a $10 billion plan. Does not appear to have happened.
2007
Vietnam, Foxconn committed to a $5 billion investment in 2007. Does not appear to have happened.
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Foxconn does have an office in PA, though (100 S 38th St, Harrisburg, PA 17111 –(Google maps/photo). Pictured above.
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