After spending $260 million buying 1,300 acres Michigan loses massive semiconductor plant.

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4. I wonder if they are in the same position as Nashville.

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So, back in the early 2000s, Nashville, TN decided to woo Dell computers. They gave them breaks. They gave them incentives. They redesigned roads to allow for their business location to have ease of travel. Nashville practically paid for them to come to that city.

Dell was all hyped. They did interviews. They did promotions. They acted like this was a match made in heaven.

And, it was. For Dell.

So, after about five years of being there and making very little in the way of 'innovations' and 'expansion of technology', they pulled out. They did not change anything about their agreement and, to my knowledge, Nashville did not put up much of a fight about it.

So, Dell got payments many years after they were nothing more than a shell presence in the area. Their plant was relocated to another state and they left a token presence to make sure they were still getting those sweet perks from the State of Tennessee, the county of Davidson, and the city of Nashville.

As far as I know, this is going on to this day.

Cities who enter into agreements with these corporations are learning what FAFO means. One would think these local reps would heed the stories coming from Nashville, and other cities who were treated like Dell treated Nashville.

Yet, for some inexplicable reason...