LETTER: Could it be that Port is only site in play for chip plant?

To Ozaukee Press:

Several articles published in Ozaukee Press have said there are alternate sites besides Port Washington that are being considered for a microchip making facility. I’m interested to hear what is happening in the Ohio and Indiana communities that this chip manufacturer is said to be exploring. Perhaps more information could be obtained from these communities.

When I search for “microchip manufacturer WI” on the internet, I quickly find Ozaukee Press articles. When I search for “microchip manufacturer OH or IN,” I do not find any analogous articles.

Is this manufacturer indeed exploring other sites, or is Port actually the only one?

Perhaps they already have a facility in one of these states they are considering expanding. Perhaps Ozaukee Press has better connections to relevant information than Google and so might be more successful in digging into what we have been told. For example, we’ve been told it’s an American company, but I don’t think there would be legal repercussions for fibbing about that.

Marshall Ambrose

Port Washington

Editor’s note: The lid on information about the microchip factory that could be built in Port Washington remains tightly sealed. Even landowners who have signed contracts to sell their property have not been given the identity of the company that will pay them millions of dollars if a Port site is chosen. City of Port Washington officials, having signed nondisclosure agreements, are not telling the public or the press anything they know about the company. Would-be land sellers have said a real estate agent representing the company told them sites in Ohio and Indiana are also being considered, but there has been no confirmation. Both states already have large semiconductor manufacturing plants under construction. Intel chose Ohio over Wisconsin’s Foxconn site for the $20 billion facility it is now building. The letter writer raises an intriguing question. Could it be that the suggestion that there is competition for the plant is a sham and the Port site has already been chosen? In the void of information, anything is possible.

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