Airbus is getting a combined $40 million in state, county, and local tax incentives. The local incentives have an interesting twist tied to them: $5 million will go toward job training for Mobile County residents only.
Wendell Powell grew up in Mobile, and once rode his bicycle from his home to the sprawling Airbus operations south of the city’s downtown.– a second final assembly line for its popular A320-series of commercial aircraft. The project is expected to be completed by mid-2025.
That incentive comes at a time when Baldwin County, among Alabama’s fastest growing counties, has far outpaced Mobile County in growth over the past decade or so. “I’m a cheerleader for Mobile,” Dueitt said. “I don’t hate Baldwin County. I don’t hate Mississippi. But I ran for office in Mobile County. When I look at incentivizing a company with the taxpayers money out of Mobile County, I want to make sure Mobile County residents have an advantage for those jobs. That’s just very important to me toward making sure we do everything we can to make sure that happens.
Baldwin County, itself, has provided incentives to the company, though it’s not investing directly to the latest construction FAL. Lawson said the Mobile incentive packages, focusing on training for Mobile County residents only, “is a very microscopic way of looking at an incentive package.” “We looked at Novelis and its regional impact … will it have a large impact just like Airbus has had? Of course,” Lawson said. “Are there any Mobile dollars in that incentive package? No. I think that this is on a case-by-case basis.”He said there are benefits Airbus has made on Mobile that are unmeasurable.
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