Growing data-storage firm eyes Duluth for expansion
March 1, 2011 at 6:05 pm in Duluth News Tribune
Involta, an Iowa-based data storage company ranked 40th on the 2010 Fortune 500 list of fastest-growing private companies, is eyeing Duluth’s Technology Park for expansion.
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Involta, get ready for the royal runaround from one of the most business unfriendly cities in the U.S.!
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HA! Yeah right, just wait until the council gets a hold of them.
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$10 says it’ll never happen.
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If I were the CEO I would come here. Granted I would place my company far enough behind the Proctor/Duluth border that Duluth couldn’t annex it.
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*****A data storage center isn’t expected to create a lot of jobs in Duluth…..In Akron, Ohio, where Involta is building a similar $20 million data center, 60 permanent jobs will be created ****
60 is a LOT of jobs in Duluth these days.
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Let us all pray that Donny doesn’t sell all our farms and send us down the river while looking this gift horse in the mouth……
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It,s hard to believe the negative waves. So you suggust why try and you wonder why it.s so difficult to be in duluth?
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I suggested nothing of the kind…..I just hope and pray Donny (and our city council) don’t mess this up ‘TRYING’. It’s not like That hasn’t happened before…..even with Past mayors and Past city councils. I wish we all could see a ‘sort of’ exit interview of why Other Cities are chosen over Duluth so we could zero in on what goes wrong in our negotiations.
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Does anyone else remember what native Duluthian, David Oreck, of vacum cleaner fame, said a few years ago about doing business in Duluth?
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>”Does anyone else remember”
You’ve got me there. What did he say?
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While speaking at a business luncheon in Duluth, he said Duluth has a national reputation as a tough place to do business.
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