Nearly 15 years after opening a $500 million assembly plant with nearly 2,000 employees in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, German automaker BMW has more than doubled its staff and boosted its plant investment nearly tenfold. A new study estimates BMW now generates 23,050 direct and indirect jobs for the Greenville-Spartanburg area.
As Volkswagen prepares to break ground this fall on its only American manufacturing plant at the Enterprise South industrial park, Chattanooga, Tenn., leaders hope for a similar German-led economic invasion.
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http://timesfreepress.com/news/2008/sep/21/bmw-speeds-spartanburg-growth-vw-drives-chattanoog/
