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Semi - I think it ended up as intending to be an eyesore. After what the Texas State Legislature did, I think intel wanted to remind them of it for awhile.

What did they do?


So, here in the Valley of the Sun, there are 4 semiconductor manufacturers, so you frequently hear gossip from the other companies. The way I heard it......

Intel was deciding where to put this "Development Building", and secured financial concessions from the Texas legislature (as companies always do), to build it in Austin. At the time, they were gung ho to get High Tech in that area. The stupid thing I heard intel did, was, that they didn't get it in writing. They bought the property, cleared the land, and started erecting the structure.

Then, the Texas legislature developed a case of "amnesia" about the concessions. Noooooo says Texas, we never promised any concessions, what are you talking about? The story goes that Texas thought that since intel had started construction, they would NEVER put it on hold. Circumstantial evidence seems they did.

The reason it got to be a story around here, was that when thy were putting up Fab22, there were several stories going around about the steel intel used to construct the F22 Office Building's superstructure. All the steel arrived on the site at the same time, and according to a TV News story I saw, intel shipped all the steel by rail....... From Texas.

This was a few months after they stopped construction on the Texas building. The funny thing was, I saw the structure when they were building it, and the steel was oxidized, you know, that red rust color? Like it had been sitting around for awhile?

Of course, you know how stories go, and it could be just a bunch of B.S., but if you look at the F22 Office building, and the F12 Office building across the parking lot, it's clear that the designs are different. On the other site in Chandler, when they built an additional office building they made it look like what was already there, not on the Ocotillo site. And guess who I heard occupies the top floor of the Ocotillo building.....

The people that were originally scheduled to be assigned to Texas.....

Coincidence? Maybe. Gossip? Probably. But it all seems to fit. Interesting story though, eh?

Semi