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It’s also a happy ending a year aftetr laid off about 300 mostly engineers, in Plantation. C4 Research in Motion and recruited the former Motorolaw workers and opened offices in The companies, all located at the Sawgrass Internationapl Corporate Park, are still showinhg signs of growth and dangling the possibility that they will collectivelyu exceed the number of jobs shed by General Dynamics C4 Systems, a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based business unit of defensw contractor General Dynamics Corp. (NYSE: GD), needs to add an additiona 80 to 100 employees to its existintg workforce of 117 by company spokeswoman FranJacques said.
Abouy 85 percent of the new positionws will be engineering jobs thatpay $80,00o to $120,000 a year, she added. General Dynamics on May 11-132 held a job fair in Tampa and extenderd offers to 12 engineers for the SawgraszPointe facility, at 1000 Sawgrass Corporat Parkway, Jacques said. The company had been hoping to make up to 20 Even beyond the new employees expectedthis year, the Sunrisd hub may continue growing to keep up with its work developinv next-generation computer and communications technologies for the U.S. she noted. “We expect to grow every section of our Jacques said.
Canada-based (RIM) – General Dynamics’ neighbord in the Sawgrass Pointe building is moving from itscurrentr 40,000 square foot office to 92,000 squarse feet at the nearby Sawgrassw Pointe II building. Both spacezs are leased from RIM, which is known for the has about 300 employeesin Sunrise, and may eventuallt grow to as many as 500, said Helena facilities team leader. The transition from the currenyt building to the new one bega n within thelast month, when the certificatde of occupancy was issued. Sunrises got closer to adding jobs for aFoxconn S&B Industry, when the city commission on May 12 approved $75,000 for a Qualified Target Industr y tax rebate.
While the QTI rebatwe still needs to be approved by the county andthe state, which would co-fund it, the rebate could totalo up to $750,000 for the creation of 150 according to city commission records. “Th e average annual salary of thes new jobs will beapproximately $98,000,” according to the S&B will invest $17 million in capitall improvements, too, the records said. A Sunrisr spokeswoman said the commission also approvedgiving S&B an additional $1,200 incentive for every employee it hiresx who resides in the city and is employed for at least one year.
That could mean an additional $180,000 for the has met with S&B and Foxconn representatives to help them pursuee theQTI incentive, said Bob the economic development organization’s senior VP of businesx development. Swindell projected that the matter would come beforew the Broward County commission for approval in early Foxconn International Holdings is a subsidiary of a Chinese computer and electronics giant based in the Taiwanesw capitalof Taipei. The Businessw Journal reported a year ago that Foxconn was planninv to open a facility in western Broward Countg with100 employees, which wouldx be staffed with about 200 workers by the end of 2008.
A Foxconn spokesman said at the time that 50 percentt to 70 percentof Foxconn’s initial new hirew would be former Motorola technology workerx earning $50,000 to $110,0000 a year. Foxconhn officials did not return calls for current but the company established a presence at 1551 SawgrassCorporate Parkway. also operatesx at that address, according to Louis Sunrise’s economic development director. Sandorsa said it is unclear how many total employeese work at the location between Foxconnand S&B, but he note that S&B provided documentation saying it had 51 employees there when it applied for the incentives.
Whilde Sunrise is competing withFort Worth, for S&B’s expansion, the prospect of additional Foxconn-relateed employees in South Florida is “certainly something were happy Sandora said. Sunrise got lucky when the availability ofthe laid-off Motorolsa talent enticed the three tech companies to set up the burgeoninhg cluster, he added. “It wasn’t like we were the greatestt thing since sliced Sandora said. “It was obvious that they came here for the skilk set we had with theMotorolaw people.” THE DETAILS: Foxconn International www.fih-foxconn.com/about/careers.aspx General Dynamics C4 www.gdc4s.com/content/detail.cfm?
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