Mobile Steel Plant may be boon

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The German steelmaker, ThyssenKrupp AG, plans to build a $3.7 billion plant in Mobile County, Ala. There will be 2,700 permanent jobs and 29,000 temporary construction jobs.

The question is: where will these workers live? East Mississippi, Mobile County, South Baldwin County or West Pensacola? All will get some, but who will be the big winner?

Pensacola/Escambia County should have a plan to court these workers.

Read: Steel plant to change Mobile for the better

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Author: Rick Outzen

Rick Outzen is the publisher/owner of Pensacola Inweekly. He has been profiled in The New York Times and featured in several True Crime documentaries. Rick also is the author of the award-winning Walker Holmes thrillers. His latest nonfiction book is “Right Idea, Right Time: The Fight for Pensacola’s Maritime Park.”