By Ozboy
In a comment yesterday I noted that our fabulous biz wiz Godfrey let another high tech company with a high payroll slip away to Layton while he was busy patting himself on the back over bringing another 5 man ski company headquarters to his high adventure fantasy town of Ogden. In the same article is another high tech outfit with 50 high paying jobs going to Layton. Apparently our globe trotting mayor was too busy unsuccessfully trying to entice some Mexican chichas outfit to Ogden to make a play for this serious high tech outfit that Layton scored.
Once again Layton's Administration kicks Godfrey and his "A" teams ass in the real world of economic development! Story here:
• Applied Industrial Technologies moving to Layton, closer to HAFBOgden gets a few "high adventure" crumbs falling off other cities tables while Layton, Orem, Draper, etc get the big companies with big payrolls.
To continue with my comment of yesterday, wherein I pointed out the complete incompetence of Mayor Godfrey in attracting and keeping high end employers in Ogden - I point out this info from this morning's Tribune Money section about California companies coming to Utah:
• California businesses lured to Utah by friendly business climateIn recent months there was the following:
• Adobe systems to build $100 million facility in Orem and hire more than 1,000 new employeesCompare that with the dismal record of the Wizard of Ogden:
• Twitter to relocate their data center to Salt Lake.
• Electronic Arts opens new plant with 100 employees
• EBay to build a $287 million dollar facility in Draper
• Oracle to resume construction of large data center which will create over 100 new jobs.
Hart Ski company to move 6 employees (no new local hires) to Ogden:
• Hart ski/snowboard company relocating headquarters, distribution operations to OgdenPerhaps this is why Godfrey & gang are the laughing stock of the Economic Development World!
