Why Mobile Alabama?
• Gross Metropolitan Product (GMP) projects 34% increase 2007 – 2012 by Moody / Forbes Magazine. • RSA Tower, the tallest building in Alabama and the largest building on the Gulf Coast outside Houston, TX, has leased 80% of its 534,268 rentable square feet in the first year. • ThyssenKrupp – $3.7 billion steel plant currently under construction will generate 29,000 construction jobs and 2,700 permanent jobs in 2010 (additional 5,000 spinoff jobs in related industries) • APM Terminals North America and Terminal Link joint venture – New Mobile Container Terminal is a $300 million intermodal facility – opening September 2008 – 1st phase 300 jobs, final phase 1,400 additional jobs • Northrop Grumman / EADS KC-45A tanker plane contract – 1,800 jobs; includes commitment to also build commercial freighters • ST Mobile Aerospace (MAE) at Brookley Field – $470 million FedEx contract to convert 87 passenger jets to air freighters – 1,302 jobs • New Airbus Research & Development Center – 150 engi
