Yes. The announcement came as a bit of shocker....it's to be in Brandenburg region.
Various areas had been checked out, but folks were a bit shocked that it'll be in the area of Grunheide (about 12 miles east of Berlin).
Jobs? Well, that's a curious piece too....a minimum of 6,000 employees, maybe going up to 7,000.
Why in Grunheide? Unknown. Population? Around 8,600. It's a quiet town....probably a dozen small lakes, with a mixed assortment of swampland and forests. Near a autobahn? Yes, A10....no more than a mile away from the town.
Railway going into the town? No. You'd find a S-Bahn station about two miles to the west of Grunheide.
A massive fight to prevent trees being cut down? Well....just about everything around this town is wooded or protected swampland. So it's hard for me to see this as a wise pick. You could have gone into the Pflaz or Hessen....to find people more pro-jobs and accepting to commercialization.
Why so close to Berlin? That's not really detailed in the explanation. There is a technology revolution going on in Berlin, with start-up companies appearing almost monthly. I won't call it a Silicon Valley, but this might have been half of the logic in picking it so near to Berlin.
The fact that it's only 8 miles away from BER (the new airport, yet to open)? It's a curious part of the story. People have suggested that a massive building boom would occur in this region around BER (once it opened). More housing, more apartment, and maybe this ties into the long-term plans of Tesla.
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