Michigan State University (MSU)
is clamoring to be the home of a new $550 million nuclear science
facility that would bring a projected $1 billion in economic activity
to the area.
According to excerpts from the article:
Patrick Anderson, chief executive officer of the Anderson Economic Group
in East Lansing, which prepared an economic impact study released
Tuesday, said the facility also would create 400 "new high-wage jobs"—on the order of $60,000 a year, with many well over $100,000—for scientists and facility staff.
It also would bring 5,000 one-year construction jobs and another 800 spin-off jobs.
"It would be a home run for Michigan," Anderson said, though one that would be a few years in coming.
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