(The following appeared on the Fort Worth Star-Telegram website on May 16, 2011.)
FORT WORTH, Texas — The announcement last week about a major production company coming to Fort Worth was big — big as a locomotive.
GE Transportation’s decision to locate a $96 million manufacturing plant here means that 250 to 300 state-of-the-art 450,000-pound locomotives will be built in Fort Worth each year.
The 900,000-square-foot facility in the Alliance corridor west of Texas Motor Speedway in Denton County will provide up to 775 quality jobs, starting with about 500 employees and eventually adding 275.
Full story: Fort Worth Star-Telegram