Dont tell me my facts are off. I am way more in the know on this deal than you can imagine.

Nice try.

I see you left the second fact alone. They would not compromise on the 40 acres to be left out of the deal..

NFCU never threatened to leave. It was never stated, implied, or spoken as an option/threat. You may have created this in your own mind, but that is where that lie should remain.

You are incorrect with your perception that there was no compromising. NFCU agreed to allow them to remain on the property for an extended period of time for something like $1 if my memory serves me right. I believe this was to allow more than enough time to identify another property and transition.

In your comments about the quality of jobs offered by NFCU, I think you are mistaken again. Just ask the hundreds of people who apply there each and every day…or better yet ask the thousands that work there already. NFCU is a classy operation who takes care of their employees just as much as they take care of their members.

Im sorry you didnt like the deal, but dont make stuff up or confuse your opinion with facts.

Here is a fact Mark, NFCU said that if they didnt get that land, not land close but that particular piece of land, they would not only not expand but threatened to leave. That is a FACT…

Here is another fact Mark, when approached by NFCU, some of the volunteers and 4H leaders asked NF if 4H could keep 40 acres out of 240 acres the answer a NO. There was never any commitment to work or compromise with 4H, it was all of it or none at all.. That is a FACT..

The site was underutilized because extension has FAILED to do its job. The are perfectly happy to do their school presentations and sign up “4H” members that never go to the first meeting.. The work done to encourage 4H membership and those members participating in programs has fallen off considerably since the 1970s. Ask your friends at extension why the requirements to use the 4H center, before it was sold, were more strigent than requirements to use the equestrian center..

I dont really care if you want the job or not, plenty of good people in this area would jump at the chance to work for a company like KIA.
As far as the car manufacturing plant, you seem to be way off base.. Apples to apples who makes more money the guy in the “deadend” job at KIA or the same guy in the deadend job at NFCU? What you failed to understand is the county that had KIA had all the support manufacturing as well. Just like Mobile and Baldwin counties are gonna have all the airplane facilities..

As a “community member” I had toured the 4H facilities, and although impressive, I always thought it was VERY under utilized. It seems there are only events a few times a year that only draw a hundred or so people. Seems like a waste to me. I may be wrong, but I believe in the “good of the many” instead of the “good of the few”.

@Gulf Coast, Navy Federal is the first step in getting the kind of business you talk about, although being a native of Detroit and VERY familiar with the auto industry, I really don’t want a factory “assembly line”, going nowhere job. It always seems those supporting the making of the cars, make more money than those involved in the manufacturing process!!

Happy! Thanks Giving.

William,
I apologize but the 1600 number was the number given to me by Debbie Caulder herself approx this time last year. She also said they were planning to hire between 100-200 per year.