{"id":1004101896,"date":"2014-08-06T13:18:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T21:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synd.yardi.com\/?p=282662"},"modified":"2025-02-25T23:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T07:28:14","slug":"tucson-fills-out-3b-permit-for-tesla-battery-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/tucson-fills-out-3b-permit-for-tesla-battery-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucson Fills Out $3B Permit for Tesla Battery Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Balazs Szekely, Associate Editor<\/em> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Tesla Motors continues to seek the perfect location for its brand new battery factory that would supply lithium-ion batteries to the firm\u2019s Fremont assembly plant.<\/p>\n

Tucson is among the finalists, and the Palo Alto, Calif.-based manufacturer of zero-emission electric vehicles has just recently received a building permit from the city\u2019s development services department. The company will choose from locations in Arizona, Texas, Nevada and New Mexico, as previously reported <\/em><\/a>in March. Since then, California joined the race by offering special tax breaks for the carmaker.<\/p>\n

Initially, Tesla Motors\u2019 purpose was to develop a $5 billion, 10 million-square-foot lithium-ion battery factory on around 1,000 acres of land in one of the aforementioned states. With completion slated in 2015 and production starting in 2017, the plant would provide jobs to about 6,500 people. The recently issued permit is for an up-to-5-million-square-foot one-story building at an address yet undetermined. However, a site with access to the Union Pacific mainline and the interstates has also previously been identified.<\/p>\n

According to Arizona Daily Star<\/em><\/a>, Mayor Jonathan Rothschild sent the permit to the company\u2019s officials along with a brief memo assuring them that the City of Tucson is \u201cready to proceed\u201d as soon as Tesla comes to a decision. Rothschild told the Daily Star that the company\u2019s officials expressed their concern about bureaucracy getting in the way of the development, during a recent visit to the city. \u201cThis is a concrete sign that, not only can we act expeditiously, but we\u2019re ready,\u201d he added. <\/em><\/p>\n

Image of the Tesla Factory in Fremont, California, courtesy of Steve Jurvetson via Wikipedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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