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Headline: Washington Post, 8/21/2023
The orb and the three partially used buildings nearby are nothing like the giant manufacturing campus with 13,000 high-tech jobs that Trump and Foxconn promised five years ago, when Trump — wielding a golden shovel for the groundbreaking — called the project the “Eighth Wonder of the World.” Instead, the orb is the butt of local jokes.
“It just looks to me like sort of a low-rent Epcot Center. … What almost turns it into comedy is that they were renting it out for banquets,” said Kelly Gallaher, head of a local government watchdog group.
It might be funny, she added — except that local and state governments spent roughly $500 million to buy land, bulldoze houses and build infrastructure for an unfulfilled manufacturing megasite that was supposed to include dozens of futuristic buildings and a factory to produce flat-panel displays for televisions.
Foxconn today does some manufacturing at the site, where the company says it employs 1,000 people building computer servers for data centers and electronic devices for solar panels. But so far, it hasn’t been the massive investment that Trump and the firm initially touted.
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Cruising our way to the 8th wonder of the world on state highway 311 in Mount Pleasant, Racine County, Wisconsin. (6/23/2023)
Cruising past Donald Trump's and Scott Walker's 8th Wonder of the World in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. (6/29/2023)
Other Foxconn and Foxconn/Lordstown posts:
2023
August
Lordstown Motors cautionary tale. (8/10)
July
More bad karma for Lordstown Motors. (7/25)
Take the money and run. (7/18)
June
May
January
2022
2021
GET ME REWRITE: Yes, Foxconn's $100 milion pledge to UW-Madison was nothing more than a cynical election ploy by Scott Walker. (8/11)
The mysteries of Foxconn (season 2). (5/12)
2020
GET ME REWRITE: Two gullible guys from Racine County still believe anything Foxconn tells them. (10/23)
Keeping tabs on Foxconn Place in
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