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Pretty sweet if it happens.
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Pretty sweet if it happens.
Bring it on - we'll build and fix the robots for the automated factory.
Adidas should take over any of the abandoned factories within Detroit city limits. Clean up the area totally and build state of the art facilities. We'll see whether they're willing to pay fair wages to make the shoes that many people are willing to maim each other for.:p
I think that'd be great.
Even with robots, its better that it will be in Detroit than some other place. Plus, I'm sure they will employ some people, and will pay taxes. And, reconvert an abandoned building to use.
Hopefully the people they plan to employ don't have to have a PhD. in engineering.
I think you missed my point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA8DsUN6g_k
"My 'Adidas' Only Bring GOOD NEWS!" According to RUN DMC!
If they are looking at Detroit, it's likely because they think they can take advantage of the city's desperation and negotiate themselves a deal where they pay little to nothing in property taxes in exchange for creating a few jobs and/or redeveloping an abandoned property. There's no way in hell a company like Adidas, which is struggling financially, is going to show up here, pay full taxes, and employ a bunch of people at $25 an hour to do unskilled manual labor.
^^^ The credit check screen is a bit much as it is not that hard to see your FICO numbers slide down from a few missed payments due to lack of or an interruption in cash flow. And you need employment to increase cash flow, yet.... wash, rinse, repeat.
What I think would be cool would be:
- The factory located somewhere in midtown [[or some other site that has enough space, is walkable and has good visibility).
- With an Adidas store. And possibly a museum/collection.
- With architecture such that visitors can see the shoes being made.
Something like a small version of Volkswagen's Transparent Factory.