Apple facility in North Carolina to be located in Maiden?


Posted by Dennis Sellers Jun 30, 2009 at 5:39am

The Maiden Town Council (North Carolina) will join representatives of the Catawba County Board of Commissioners and the county’s Economic Development Corp. on Monday, July 6, to make an announcement at the Maiden Recreation Center, said Marcus Midgett, Maiden’s mayor pro tem. According to the Hickory Record, it “will probably involve a new industry coming to Maiden” and most folks thinks the new industry is Apple.

“Speaking purely speculatively, whether it was Apple, IBM or some other well-known company coming to Maiden, it would be a tremendous asset to Maiden and to Catawba County,” Midgett said.

Earlier this month it was announced that Apple was planning a facility—expected to be a data center—in North Carolina. The facility is expected to employ at least 50 full-time employees. The state legislation requires that the average wage exceed the wage standard of the county in which it’s located. A data center such as is anticipated will typically contract locally for services such as server maintenance and repair, building and HVAC maintenance, landscaping and security—expenditures that could range from $5 million to $6 million annually in the region and create up to 250 jobs.

The North Carolina Department of Commerce projects that a data center investment of $1 billion would create more than 3,000 jobs in the regional economy, including hundreds of jobs related to construction and others created as a result of economic growth.

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