Twin Oaks
Whew----it was better than a kick in the “you know where” for the Mayor, and the City. Finally some good news to break the string of bad headlines and give some hope: 250 "high tech" jobs from an unknown company that will make an announcement in several weeks. And then “more of these types of announcements within the next couple of months.”
I had a few thoughts when reading the story
1) I hope that the Mayor does not give himself a checkmark on his Report Card for Economic Development for this. It does not look as if he or the City’s Economic Development group had much of a role to play. This seems to be strictly a Chrysler deal in bringing a supplier close to its plant as it is doing in Toledo.
I had a few thoughts when reading the story
1) I hope that the Mayor does not give himself a checkmark on his Report Card for Economic Development for this. It does not look as if he or the City’s Economic Development group had much of a role to play. This seems to be strictly a Chrysler deal in bringing a supplier close to its plant as it is doing in Toledo.
- “Tom LaSorda, the Chrysler Group's chief operating officer says the new $2.1 billion manufacturing project in Toledo will utilize outside suppliers to handle key elements of the assembly process. Three suppliers will build and manage key manufacturing process facilities for body, paint and chassis operations that are totally within the plant "footprint" of the new plant that Chrysler plans to have in operation by 2006.”
Clearly the CAW should be congratulated for its foresight in inking the deal with Chrysler during the negotiations
2) “Senator” David Cassivi better start getting concerned about the next election. The Mayor’s cultivation of the Lewenza’s, Senior and Junior, paid off in many respects: support of Schwartz, Casino contract (eventually), jobs and no running by Junior for mayor this time around. As more plant job announcements get made and when Henderson starts praising the Lewenzas, then you know that David is in big trouble.
The main concern for David, however, is that if Bill Marra decides to run for Council in Ward 4, as rumours suggest, then it would be a real fight amongst the three of them. If the arena deal goes sour will voters take it out on him?
3) Governor Granholm was the biggest champion of the East End of Windsor on the border issue, not the Mayor whose base of support was Ward 5 nor Councillor Gignac. If she had not killed the east end bridge, can you imagine the pressure today to build that bridge now given the development of the Twin Oaks site….straight down Lauzon and across the river. And if that bridge were built, then guess what….DRTP is back.
4) The Ambassador Bridge Co. was right again. They have been arguing that if truck border traffic is not increasing at the optimistic rates of the Engineers’ projections, or even decreasing, then we might not need another crossing for many years. The Chrysler/supplier plant above may mean that parts do not cross the border as much as before thereby reducing truck volumes.
5) I don’t know how this works but I see that the City exercised an option to buy the land and then resold it. From whom was the land purchased and at what price? How much was paid for the option? What was the sale price? I was just curious to know if the City made or lost money or broke even on the deal.
2) “Senator” David Cassivi better start getting concerned about the next election. The Mayor’s cultivation of the Lewenza’s, Senior and Junior, paid off in many respects: support of Schwartz, Casino contract (eventually), jobs and no running by Junior for mayor this time around. As more plant job announcements get made and when Henderson starts praising the Lewenzas, then you know that David is in big trouble.
The main concern for David, however, is that if Bill Marra decides to run for Council in Ward 4, as rumours suggest, then it would be a real fight amongst the three of them. If the arena deal goes sour will voters take it out on him?
3) Governor Granholm was the biggest champion of the East End of Windsor on the border issue, not the Mayor whose base of support was Ward 5 nor Councillor Gignac. If she had not killed the east end bridge, can you imagine the pressure today to build that bridge now given the development of the Twin Oaks site….straight down Lauzon and across the river. And if that bridge were built, then guess what….DRTP is back.
4) The Ambassador Bridge Co. was right again. They have been arguing that if truck border traffic is not increasing at the optimistic rates of the Engineers’ projections, or even decreasing, then we might not need another crossing for many years. The Chrysler/supplier plant above may mean that parts do not cross the border as much as before thereby reducing truck volumes.
5) I don’t know how this works but I see that the City exercised an option to buy the land and then resold it. From whom was the land purchased and at what price? How much was paid for the option? What was the sale price? I was just curious to know if the City made or lost money or broke even on the deal.
6) I wonder if Windsor still has dreams of amalgamating with some of the county towns. Did something happen that I missed recently? Ken Junior said the CAW got written assurances that all new parts suppliers would be within 200 km of Windsor..."We insisted...any plants that are going to do business with Chrysler Corporation are going to exist in the city of Windsor." Wow, Windsor has grown.
posted by JoeBlog at 6:20 a.m.
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