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Clayton County economic development officials did not respond to requests for comment on Wednesday.
As Whirlpool made plans to shutter the factory, state and county economic development officials scrambled to attract new employers.
The company offered to give the land and buildings, for which it had once asked $3.5 million, to the county economic development agency.
Although the county has not drawn major employers on the scale of Swiss Bank, it has cut its vacancy rate by focusing on small and midsize firms, said Salvatore Carrera, the county economic development director.
But the two county economic development agencies that routinely sweeten relocation packages by offering financial incentives have bowed out, and despite the professed optimism of some local brokers, the possibility of corporate relocations diminishes with every passing day.
To this end, the Board of Legislators should pass and the county executive should sign a living wage ordinance requiring that contractors and recipients of county economic development subsidies or tax abatements pay their employees a living wage.
About half the city's residents over age 25 have at least a bachelor's degree, said Robert M. Simpson, the president of the CenterState Corporation for Economic Opportunity, a 12-county economic development organization.
When county economic-development specialists sought strategic advice from officials in cities that had lost factories in the nineteen-nineties, they came away further distressed.
The walkout cost Los Angeles County more than $2 billion in lost wages and related economic activity, according to the Los Angeles County Economic Development.
Mike served on the Board of Directors of the Greater Wayne Area Chamber of Commerce the Wayne Area Foundation and Passaic County Economic Development Committee.
"You have a first-world economy that's suddenly been plunged into a third-world economic environment," said Jack Kyser, chief economist of the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation.
