Good-paying Jobs Spur Growth In Alabama’s Jefferson County
By Barnett Wright
More than 3,500 jobs have been recruited to Jefferson County in the past 12 months and officials expect that number to increase by year’s end.
“I expect another 200-job announcement soon and we’re a finalist in another more-than-a-1,000-job project that could be announced later this year,” said Jefferson County Commissioner David Carrington, chair of the Finance, Information Technology and Business Development Committee.
In the past 60 days, the county has taken part in three major announcements: Amazon’s $320 million advanced robotics fulfillment center that will employ a minimum of 1,500 full-time employees; DC BLOX’s data center campus that is projected to result in $785 million in capital investment over the next 10 years; and Shipt’s decision to keep its corporate headquarters in Birmingham, adding another 881 employees.That’s in addition to recent announcements by Autocar, Evonik, Grupo Antolin, Iberia Bank, Pack Health and others.
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