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Bettie

(17,471 posts) Tue Jan 29, 2019, 09:09 AM Jan 2019

Is Foxconn actually building a factory in Racine? [View all]

And is it looking like it will really end with 15 thousand jobs?

I ask because, given their history it seems unlikely that they will follow through, but a friend recently moved there and is having trouble finding a house and said the real estate market is really tight in that area due to this.

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Is Foxconn actually building a factory in Racine? [View all] Bettie Jan 2019 OP

Why wouldn't it? watoos Jan 2019 #1

Real estate boom based on speculation over speculation. marble falls Jan 2019 #2

They have already missed their first job target, and I read that they have already said Luciferous Jan 2019 #3

OH, I know about that Bettie Jan 2019 #4

They have actually started construction- I don't know how far they have gotten, but I curse them Luciferous Jan 2019 #5

Oh, I can imagine that's a hassle Bettie Jan 2019 #6

There was an article posted a while back on here about how they are already cutting back Luciferous Jan 2019 #7

Thanks to Trump's tarriffs, the deal is really faling apart. Archae Jan 2019 #8

Just read the version of this in GD (Literally just finished) Bettie Jan 2019 #9