Follow-Up to BIG ANNOUNCEMENT Mesa Economic Development Reporter 2014

Let's take a look back - and get a real world IRL [In RealLife] real-time up-to-date - about how relying on a "headlines approach" to economic development reporting from the City of Mesa's Office of Economic Development always seems to be very positive with a forecast of good things to come that drop off the radar screen for a while with "the good news" picked up by friendly reporters in the mainstream media, like this

Mesa mayor: Full steam ahead with $2B Apple command center

www.azcentral.com/.../mesa/.../mesa...command-center/277341...

The Arizona Republic

May 22, 2015 - PREVIOUSLY: Apple promises $2 billion command center in Mesa ... establish a command center for its global data networks in the same spot, 

QUESTION: Almost a year later now, is what Mesa Mayor John Giles said about Apple moving "Full steam ahead" mebbe over-heated political rhetoric with inflated twerking?
So-called "high-paying" permanent full-time "jobs created" figures have been revised down from highs of 350-500 to less than 100. Temporary construction employees will increase, but according to a report yesterday in Phoenix Business Insider not everything is moving full-steam ahead . . .[only one job opening has been advertised]
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DATA CENTERS

From Site Selection magazine, March 2015

 

"Kim Lofgreen, marketing and business development manager with the City of Mesa, says the city’s Elliot Road Technology Corridor where Eastmark is located has a streamlined entitlement process, robust infrastructure and more than 1,000 acres (405 hectares) of shovel-ready land. The city also boasts a downtown data center location on city-owned property with reliable, efficient, green power provided by the City, a robust fiber network with dark fiber availability, and the possibility of a public-private partnership. . .
CBRE says a 1-MW tenant’s bottom line could see as much as $6 million to $7 million in tax savings over a 10-year period because of incentives passed in 2013 by the Arizona Legislature, though the language of the statute is more aligned to multitenant operators than stand-alone data centers.

"Apple has found merit in the underlying infrastructure at a regional level."

— Luke Denmon, CBRE Data Center Solutions

Source: http://siteselection.com/issues/2015/mar/data-centers.cfmThe Map at the right from NEF, color-coded by carrier, shows the relative regional density of US dark fiber. Look at Arizona
"The opportunity nascent in Phoenix-area dark fiber is not limited to that area. Michael Murphy is CEO of Boston-based NEF, one of the first dark-fiber-only agents in the United States . . ."

A Look Inside The Massive Space
that will become Apple's $2 Billion 'Data Command Center'
By Kif Lessing | May 9, 2016
"While Apple gets a lot of attention for its $5 billion campus currently under construction in Cupertino, California, it's not the only billion-dollar real estate project the tech giant is working on.
In Mesa, Arizona, Apple is hoping that the third time's the charm for a massive 1.2-million square foot manufacturing facility. 
The Apple-owned plant was previously used as a solar panel manufacturing facility, and then had a short-lived tenure as a location for GT Advanced Technology, an Apple supplier.
Now, Apple is planning to invest $2 billion to convert the plant into a "global command center," which will not only store iCloud backups and iTunes files, but will also provide oversight of other remote and co-located Apple data centers, the Phoenix Business Journal reported. 
But bad luck seems to follow the facility . . . "
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