The Pima County Board of Supervisors has a vote scheduled to enter into a lease-purchase agreement with ABF for the Tucson property. phoenix
Utah-based American Battery Factory is planning to build a $1.2 billion battery manufacturing plant in southern Arizona across 267 acres, according to Pima County documents and the startup.
American Battery Factory's facility will be developed in three phases and located at Pima County's Aerospace and Research Campus, south of Tucson International Airport between Interstates 10 and 19. Through the agreement, the county would initially lease up to 70 acres for the first phase with the option to purchase the land if job and construction benchmarks are met. The appraised value of the overall site totals $23.2 million.
"American Battery Factory is energized by the possibility of opening our first factory in Tucson, Arizona at a site located in the heart of the county’s growing Aerospace Research Campus," the company said in a statement on its website."We have been in close coordination with officials at all levels of state, county and city leadership to ensure that our proposal for the site will benefit both the local community in Tucson as well as the broader Arizona economy.
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