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02-03-2009, 06:57 PM
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#91 | | ERIC VFX
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: CA Posts: 4,631 | Quote:
Originally Posted by graham  (Assuming, of course, that California fixes the budget enough to be able to start paying these things...) | IOU Arnold Bucks coming. Quote: |
It does make sense to repurpose a factory in this economy where there will be loads of empty ones.
| Or is it better to put construction companies to work?
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02-03-2009, 07:28 PM
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#92 | | '08 #383
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Cupertino, CA Posts: 364 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Lancelac It does make sense to repurpose a factory in this economy where there will be loads of empty ones. | Not necessarily. Though, I suppose, for the kinds of assembly buildings we're talking about, there wouldn't be so much interior that needs re-configuring. Where you can get into trouble is where there are impedance mis-matches between old and new purposes - how much parking, where in town it's located, proximity of mass transit or shipping.
Hopefully, that's all being taken into account. | |
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02-03-2009, 10:43 PM
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#93 | | Super Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Aptos, California Posts: 1,551 | Hopefully. Sometimes it takes more work to refurbish than to build from scratch. Let's hope wherever they end up that it will be because it is better/cheaper/faster to rebuild there and not in a place that is tons more bother and cost because of a checkmark on a loan application.
Edit to add: Ah... SByer just said the same thing, only better. | |
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02-03-2009, 10:56 PM
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#94 | | Super Moderator
Join Date: May 2008 Location: Winchester, UK Posts: 2,961 | Brownfield doesn't necessarily mean reuse an existing building - the site could have already been cleared or they could clear it and put up a new building. | |
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02-04-2009, 09:15 AM
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#95 | | Head Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Stanford, California Posts: 3,605 | KLIV - TESLA TO ANNOUNCE NEW PLANT LOCATION Quote: |
A proposed electric car plant for the Bay Area may not find a new location in San Jose. Tesla Motors is expected to make an announcement soon where it will put its new manufacturing operations for its Model S sedan.
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02-04-2009, 12:06 PM
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#96 | | ERIC VFX
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: CA Posts: 4,631 | Quote:
Originally Posted by doug | That's the way non bias way news should be reported.
(though it could be interpreted as Press Release transcribing throughput.)
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02-04-2009, 04:54 PM
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#97 | | Head Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Stanford, California Posts: 3,605 | Quote:
Originally Posted by doug I saw this a couple weeks ago. I didn't pass it on since I figured it was another naysayer trying to start rumors, but maybe he was onto something. Watch Dog Silicon Valley: The Tesla Chronicles: Tesla plans "abandoned" in San Jose... Quote: |
Word made it around the Mayor's State of the City yesterday that Tesla's plans may already be dead. According to spies, someone with direct knowledge of Tesla's plans for San Jose was describing how the plans for the 650,000 square foot assembly plant for San Jose have been "abandoned"...
| | Looks like these guys are saying "told you so." News & Culture in Silicon Valley | Silicon Valley News Notes Quote: Watch Dog's Tesla Scoop
When the Merc, KCBS and the Business Journal reported last week that Tesla had shifted gears and reversed direction, and might not be building a plant in San Jose after all, it was old news to readers of Watch Dog Silicon Valley. The upstart anonymous blog has been following serial entrepreneur Elon Musk's upstart electric car company closely for some time, in a series titled "The Tesla Chronicles." On Jan. 15, Watch Dog posted a piece headlined: Tesla Plans "Abandoned" in San Jose. The quotation marks in the headline are intentional—Watch Dog attributed the information to his/her "spies" in City Hall. In a slightly self-congratulatory follow-up post yesterday, humbly headlined "We Told You So," Watch Dog gently chided Mayor Chuck Reed's press secretary, Michelle McGurk, who told the Merc that the city is still "scurrying" to find new sites in San Jose: "If Ms. McGurk had just read Watch Dog earlier, she would have known the Tesla deal was in trouble and the City wouldn't have to scurry so much. ..."
| Watch Dog Silicon Valley: Tesla Chronicles: We Told You So Edition...UPDATED AT 8:46 PM Watch Dog Silicon Valley: Watch Dog correction on Tesla... | |
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02-04-2009, 08:43 PM
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#98 | | '08 #383
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Cupertino, CA Posts: 364 | That last link (with Rachel's letter) seems to be pretty key - and probably should be cross-linked in from the "$100 million" thread. It pretty much jibes with what I thought I understood after the town hall - that yes, Tesla wasn't able to fully finance the factory directly, that the current funding rounds were to "boot up" into the government loan programs, and that it was in closing that round of financing that the re-pricing got shaken loose from.
And kudos to WDSV for putting the letter up intact. | |
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02-11-2009, 02:52 PM
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#99 | | Head Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Stanford, California Posts: 3,605 | Still no real news on this, but here's an update of what we already know: KLIV - TESLA MOTORS HOPES TO PUT HQ IN SILICON VALLEY Quote:
Although it may not be building a new electric car manufacturing plant in San Jose, Telsa Motors is still looking to set up shop in Silicon Valley. A spokesperson says the company is in late stage negotiations to locate its new headquarters in Silicon Valley.
Tesla Senior Communications Manger Rachel Konrad says the company has outgrown its current location, which is scattered across several buildings in a San Carlos industrial area. In addtion to the headquarters, the company's research and development staff will also be located at the unidentified Silicon Valley site.
Konrad could not provide specifics about where the new site would be located because the negotiations are still in progress.
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02-18-2009, 03:20 PM
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#100 | | Head Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Stanford, California Posts: 3,605 | Haven't heard anything yet, but I'd suspect that Tesla will want to have a deal in hand and make an announcement before the Model S unveiling on March 26.
Before the Zanker Road site was selected, Tesla was said to be also considering Vacaville and South San Francisco. Perhaps either or both of those sites are back on the table.
This article reports how the city of Vallejo is actively trying to court Tesla into setting up at Mare Island: Officials hope Tesla will provide 'green' -- in cash and cars - Vallejo Times Herald Quote:
Mike Ammann, president of Solano Economic Development Corp. in Fairfield, would hardly be surprised if Tesla Motors officials were again eyeing Mare Island as a possible site to develop.
He said Tesla, while considering Vacaville and San Jose, had previously scouted the former naval shipyard, with its dozens of airplane hangar-sized buildings, as a possible place to set up a manufacturing facility.
Ammann said details of the Obama administration's Economic Recovery Act, which the president wants to sign today, will factor into the company's decision to locate at Mare Island -- or at another abandoned military base in California, such as Alameda Naval Air Station in Alameda or Castle Air Force Base in Atwater.
| This guy is hoping they'll pick Alameda, which incidentally is where I originally thought they'd end up: An open letter to Tesla Blogging - Bayport Alameda
Wait and see, I guess.
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