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billion chip fab marked the staryt ofa two-year-long construction process for the Calif., company. About a dozen large pieces of equipment arrived Monday on the sitefor ground-clearing work that is schedule d to start this As many as 1,600 workers will be employed during the two-year construction process. The chip fab is expecteds to open in 2012 andemployh 1,400 people when it’s running at full capacityy in 2014. The 1.3-million-square-foot manufacturinvg facility—located on 223 acres in the in Malta— is the park’s first tenant. “Having our anchor makes Lutherr Forest a realtech campus.
Before, we had infrastructure,” said Michae l Relyea, president of Luther Forest. Initially, aboutt 100 people will work on theGlobalFoundries “We’ll work in the several-hundred range until the worst of winter,” said Rick Whitney, president of ’s U.S. Germany-based M+W Zander is the project’xs general manager. “Those numbers will ramp up over the next six to nine he said. More than 1,000o people will be working on the project a yearfrom now. M+W Zandet is preparing to award the contract forsteelp work, Whitney said.
Separate bid packagex to erect steel forthe 800,0000-square-foot buildingy and neighboring utility building were sent to 12 Of the five companies that responded, two are local, one is a partnershi p with a local company and two are Whitney declined to disclose the price rangesd of those bids. of Gloversville won the contract for the sitedevelopment work. The cost of that projectf is estimated atabout $15 Foundation work will be bid in the next few Whitney said.
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