AUSTIN | Economic Development - Page 4

urbancore · #1 Posted **Jan 22, 2020, 6:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by We vs us

Excellent new rumor. Do you know if an announcement will involve a building? Or just "Major Player X will be moving to town" etc.

She's given me a name of the company and the ball-park number of jobs, and that the announcement is coming next week. It's almost too good to be true to me.....I hope she is right.

Nothing on a building or where or when....she also won't reveal how she knows. ....she just smiles. ERRR. I know she is "connected" so to speak....we shall see.

Austin1971 · #2 Posted **Jan 22, 2020, 6:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by urbancore

she's given me a name of the company and the ball-park number of jobs, and that the announcement is coming next week. It's almost too good to be true to me.....i hope she is right.

Nothing on a building or where or when....she also won't reveal how she knows. ....she just smiles. Errr. I know she is "connected" so to speak....we shall see.

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urbancore · #3 Posted **Jan 22, 2020, 7:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by Austin1971

So in your opinion would this rumored announcement be bigger than Apple's announcement last year? This will give us some sort of perspective to this rumor.

What was the number of jobs Apple quoted, 5 or 10k?

I just looked it up....it was 5k.

My source quoted MUCH higher than the Apple announcement.

Austin1971 · #4 Posted **Jan 22, 2020, 7:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by urbancore

what was the number of jobs apple quoted, 5 or 10k?

I just looked it up....it was 5k.

My source quoted much higher than the apple announcement.

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Jdawgboy · #5 Posted **Jan 22, 2020, 7:05 PM**

I think ultimately Apple expects over 20K but probably off a bit maybe even undercutting the overall number. It's going to be a large amount but will be over a period of years.

Yea I'm hoping the big announcement isn't anti-climactic since we've been building anticipation. Regardless it should at the least show that Austin will continue to be a magnet for more jobs.

deerhoof · #6 Posted **Jan 22, 2020, 7:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by urbancore

What was the number of jobs Apple quoted, 5 or 10k?

I just looked it up....it was 5k.

My source quoted MUCH higher than the Apple announcement.

I'm going to guess Facebook.

Jdawgboy · #7 Posted **Jan 23, 2020, 12:08 AM**

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Originally Posted by urbancore

What was the number of jobs Apple quoted, 5 or 10k?

I just looked it up....it was 5k.

My source quoted MUCH higher than the Apple announcement.

5,000 initially, up to 15,000 additional jobs on top of the over 6K that we already have, which barring whatever this announcement is would make Apple Austin's largest private employer.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/...across-the-us/

LiveattheOasis · #8 Posted **Jan 22, 2020, 7:52 PM**

Goodness. Amazon, Salesforce, Facebook, WeWork. All would be pretty huge, but only 1-2 could be an HQ relocation.

Are you hearing HQ or large presence?

Austin1971 · #9 Posted **Jan 22, 2020, 8:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by liveattheoasis

goodness. Amazon, salesforce, facebook, wework. All would be pretty huge, but only 1-2 could be an hq relocation.

Are you hearing hq or large presence?

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We vs us · #10 Posted **Jan 22, 2020, 10:22 PM**

I'm on Team Salesforce. This is about the right time to announce, if your signature tower The Republic is about to really kick off in earnest.

It's kind of amazing that there's no formal SF presence in Austin at all. Given our importance now to the tech world (yes, can't believe I just typed that) -- it seems significant that we're completely left out.

murfnut · #11 Posted **Jan 22, 2020, 10:26 PM**

We should all make a prediction, I would say Microsoft. There is a lot of cloud work going on in Austin from hardware to software, so plenty of talent to recruit from. They need another big development location away from the west coast that is more tax friendly. I will also guess it would be located near Oracle with that new development though it would be cool if they took over the new domain towers.

Rumors/secrets are cool in this area. I remember when I knew about Cedar Park Schlitterbahn over a year before it was announced. I knew the city was negotiating incentives on the land because I did p&z volunteering work but the company name was top secret, then I happened to bump into one of the developers on a run in a neighborhood and we started talking about development and he mentioned the name to me. Keeping in quiet was hard. Turns out the development never happened but it was fun to know ahead of time.

urbancore · #12 Posted **Jan 22, 2020, 10:29 PM**

If I knew with certainty like i did with 48 East (I know the owner), I would say more. It’s just hard to trust a source I don’t know.

Ergo.....rumor.

Austin1971 · #13 Posted **Jan 22, 2020, 10:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by urbancore

if i knew with certainty like i did with 48 east (i know the owner), i would say more. It’s just hard to trust a source i don’t know.

Ergo.....rumor.

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Jdawgboy · #14 Posted **Jan 23, 2020, 12:04 AM**

I'm actually hoping it's something completely unexpected. Those are pretty cool kinds of announcements.

For example, say if it is Salesforce, it won't really be that exciting in the sense that it was already a decent possibility and as a result been discussed or expected. I thought today's news about Citadel was pretty exciting.

Austin1971 · #15 Posted **Jan 23, 2020, 1:31 AM**

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AustinGoesVertical · #18 Posted **Jan 23, 2020, 4:23 AM**

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^ so far all your one word replies lead to this string. At first I thought you were revealing a stock ticker symbol, then company acronym, then the full name just letter by letter in order. But now I think it’s a company name but scrambled. We’ve got 13 letters so far. If this isn’t just a tease haha, then can anyone order these so that it starts to resemble a company name? I guess UrbanCore might have the best guess on if these letters start to construct/match the company he’s heard of.

Obviously, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, SalesForce, WeWork, Facebook, Google, can’t be it.

Now you can spell “Hashtag” from part of this string... so um.. Twitter?

paul78701 · #19 Posted **Jan 23, 2020, 4:47 AM**

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Originally Posted by AustinGoesVertical

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^ so far all your one word replies lead to this string. At first I thought you were revealing a stock ticker symbol, then company acronym, then the full name just letter by letter in order. But now I think it’s a company name but scrambled. We’ve got 13 letters so far. If this isn’t just a tease haha, then can anyone order these so that it starts to resemble a company name? I guess UrbanCore might have the best guess on if these letters start to construct/match the company he’s heard of.

Obviously, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, SalesForce, WeWork, Facebook, Google, can’t be it.

Now you can spell “Hashtag” from part of this string... so um.. Twitter?

This could be some sort of cipher. Question is...which type of cipher? Is the message even finished?

hookem · #20 Posted **Jan 23, 2020, 4:57 AM**

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Originally Posted by paul78701

This could be some sort of cipher. Question is...which type of cipher? Is the message even finished?

Looks more like a comprehensive scrubbing of content and exit announcement. See his last edit comment. Not sure what nugget of info was dropped that triggered it.