Props to Bruce Murphy for asking just what's to be built in Foxconn's Mt. Pleasant plant.
I'm on record with a prediction:
Foxconn’s 1 Million Square Feet; Of What?And, mind you, the Gen 6 plant is already a reduction in scope from the cutting-edge Gen 10.5 plant hyped when the Walker-promoted Foxconn /subsidy/wetland-filling/litigation-shortcutting GOP hoopla and handouts were rolled out.
Despite media claims, new facility unlikely to be a Gen 6 manufacturer. So what will it be?
I'm on record with a prediction:
I have long-believed that Foxconn's buildings will be eventually sold and re-purposed for cookie-cutter production and assembly work in the industrial park corridor along I-94 North/South served by overbuilt new interchanges pushed through the Legislature by hometown party Boss Vos, as I wrote in February:
Even if Foxconn disappears, Sprawl King Vos is a winner
WI GOP Assembly Speaker Robin Vos managed in a state without two spare potholes-filling nickels to rub together to steer to and through his district a quarter of a billion federal and state road-and-interchange widening dollars that will trigger sprawl beyond bulldozed Mount Pleasant farms even if Foxconn never diverts a gallon of Lake Michigan water to produce a single big screen LCD TV.
I've been following the Foxconn story for more than 34 months.
Here is one summary post with more than 370 Foxconn items and many more references and links:
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From NBC Nightly News, 7/21/19 |