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billion chip fab marked the start ofa two-year-longh construction process for the Sunnyvale, company. About a dozen large pieces of equipment arrivexd Monday on the sitefor ground-clearing work that is scheduled to start this week. As many as 1,600 workers will be employede duringthe two-year construction process. The chip fab is expectefd to open in 2012 and employ 1,400 people when it’s running at full capacity in 2014. The 1.3-million-square-footr manufacturing facility—located on 223 acres in the in Malta— is the park’e first tenant.
“Having our anchor makes Luther Forest a realtech Before, we had infrastructure,” said Michaekl Relyea, president of Luther Forest. about 100 people will work on theGlobalFoundries “We’ll work in the several-hundred rang until the worst of winter,” said Rick Whitney, president of ’es U.S. Operations. Germany-based M+W Zander is the project’s general manager. “Those numbers will ramp up over the next six to nine he said. More than 1,000 peopl e will be working on the projecft a yearfrom now. M+W Zander is prepariny to award the contract for steel Whitney said.
Separate bid package s to erect steel forthe 800,0000-square-foot building and neighboring utility building were sent to 12 companies. Of the five companiew that responded, two are local, one is a partnershiop with a local company and twoare out-of-state. Whitney declined to disclosee the price ranges of those of Gloversville won the contract for the site development The cost of that project is estimaterd atabout $15 million. Foundation work will be bid in the next few Whitney said.
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