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If they're after tax breaks and cheap land they can follow companies like Sprint and Garmin and build open headquarters somewhere in East Kansas.
by avenoir 9y ago
If they're after tax breaks and cheap land they can follow companies like Sprint and Garmin and build open headquarters somewhere in East Kansas.
- kansasresident 9y agoSprint and Garmin have always been in Kansas. They didn't move here from somewhere else.
- mratzloff 9y agoSmall qualified developer pool to draw from and hard to attract outside talent. I grew up in eastern Kansas and left in part because of dismal career prospects. They'll end up choosing an up-and-coming city (i.e., positive population growth).
- hellogoodbyeeee 9y agoI'm pretty sure the Kansas City Metro (where Sprint, Garmin, and Cerner are located) has positive population growth.
- Apocryphon 9y agoThey've got Google Fiber now, though.
- avenoir 9y agoPerhaps many years ago? Eastern Kansas has a pretty massive tech sector now. So do some parts of Kansas City metro.
- mratzloff 9y agoTo be clear I'm not saying there's no tech economy in eastern Kansas (though I think all involved would dispute a description of "massive"). Just saying that dropping Amazon there won't magically make 50,000 qualified applicants appear. “There are simply not enough workers in the area with the technical skills to meet the demand of our region’s companies,” the report commissioned by the KC Tech Council said. “This number will not decrease unless our region does more to support tech workforce development.” http://www.kansascity.com/news/business/technology/article148948664.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/business/technology/article14...