ThyssenKrupp to build huge new steel mill in Mobile County

[CShine 0]

ThyssenKrupp AG has chosen north Mobile County as the site for what was billed as a $2.9 billion steel mill but is now valued at $4.19 billion, according to the company and Neal Wade, head of the Alabama Development Office. The company's board of supervisors made the decision today in Dusseldorf. The Alabama site, which is near Mt. Vernon and on the Tombigbee River, was chosen over a site along the Mississippi River near Convent, La.

"This is a game-changing decision for Mobile, Alabama," Mobile Mayor Sam Jones said in a written statement. "We are no longer living on potential - we are living up to it. This plant will have a tremendously positive impact on our citizens for years to come."

ThyssenKrupp has said the mill will mean 29,000 jobs during construction, and 2,700 jobs paying an average of $50,000 to $65,000 annually once the plant is operational in 2010.

http://blog.al.com/live/2007/05/mobile_cou...hyssenkrup.html

[otterinbham 0]

Yep. Twenty years from now, people won't recognize this state. Now if the Birmingham politicians can start working together, we should prove unstoppable.

[DKW 86 7,429]

WTG Mobile!

[WinCrimson 61]

Quote of the year. . .

"They took our football coach and our plant." -- LA Govenor Kathleen Blanco

[Tigermike 3,039]

Now if the Birmingham politicians can start working together,,,,,,,,,,,,

What do you think the odds are of that happening? Personally I would rate it somewhere between slim and none.

[BZ770 2]

They said that plant would reach from Azalea Rd to Bel Air mall in length on the news tonight. That will make the price of Construction labor skyrocket. There is already a shortage of craft with Austill, Bender, Ingels and Degussa and Chevron. People jump place to place making more each time.

[otterinbham 0]

Now if the Birmingham politicians can start working together,,,,,,,,,,,,

What do you think the odds are of that happening? Personally I would rate it somewhere between slim and none.

Oh, we're seeing signs of it now that the old generation of political leadership, black and white, is melting away.

There's a great deal of pressure on the state government and the corporate level to get these halfwits to start working together.

Basically, the black politicians in Birmingham proper can't play the race card any more, and the white politicians in the suburbs can't pretend that Birmingham doesn't exist.

[auwallace 6]

ThyssenKrupp AG has chosen north Mobile County as the site for what was billed as a $2.9 billion steel mill but is now valued at $4.19 billion, according to the company and Neal Wade, head of the Alabama Development Office. The company's board of supervisors made the decision today in Dusseldorf. The Alabama site, which is near Mt. Vernon and on the Tombigbee River, was chosen over a site along the Mississippi River near Convent, La.

"This is a game-changing decision for Mobile, Alabama," Mobile Mayor Sam Jones said in a written statement. "We are no longer living on potential - we are living up to it. This plant will have a tremendously positive impact on our citizens for years to come."

ThyssenKrupp has said the mill will mean 29,000 jobs during construction, and 2,700 jobs paying an average of $50,000 to $65,000 annually once the plant is operational in 2010.

http://blog.al.com/live/2007/05/mobile_cou...hyssenkrup.html

the news came on the same day that the rsa tower was lit and the historic battle house hotel was re-opened.