Before choosing Richmond, Va., real estate research firm CoStar Group was looking to take space at the 615 South College office tower (center) currently under construction in uptown. Rick Rothacker rrothacker@charlotteobserver.com.
While that hateful bigot McCrory still attempts to hang onto his lost office, and refuses to admit all the damage done to NC by HB 2, it has come to light that HB 2 was the reason for a loss of a 732 job expansion. Odd, how the repubs refuse to address these reasons for job losses. Hate, bad for business!
Newly obtained North Carolina Commerce Department documents show House Bill 2 was the primary reason Charlotte lost a 732-job business expansion to Richmond, Va.
A day after real estate research firm CoStar Group announced plans to expand in Virginia, a North Carolina economic development official closed out the project file and listed the controversial LGBT legislation approved March 23 as the deciding factor.
In an Oct. 25 email to state officials, Garrett Wyckoff, senior manager of business recruitment for the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina, said he changed the status of the CoStar project to “Closed Lost.”
“It is my understanding that we lost the project. I have selected the following reason for this status change: Local issues,” Wyckoff wrote in an email obtained by the Observer through a public records request fulfilled Thursday. For further explanation, Wyckoff added: “Spring 2016 Legislation.”
The Charlotte Observer has the full story.
It’s got to be causing him some severe cognitive dissonance to believe he’s right but then why does everyone hate him?
I think he’s going to have to be forcibly, physically removed from that office.
Caine @2:
Even when McWhiney is removed from office, Cooper is going to have to deal with the idiot republicans in the legislature. I do not think that it will not be an easy task for him to repeal HB2, but he will try. But then again, there may be enough animosity towards HB2 that it will be reluctantly dismantled. It has got to sting the governor that republicans carried the state for the offices of president and senator, but not for him.
But the republicans are the party of pro-business and jobs!!
At least, that’s what their propaganda keeps telling me…..
It’s amusing (in a sad, depressing, and often frustrating way) to hear otherwise smart people repeat this mantra. A brief look through the last 60 year of US economics puts the lie to this quite easily, both at the state and federal level.
McChump did concede, Pat McCrory, North Carolina Governor, Concedes After Acrimonious Race yesterday (5-Dec); apologies if this is mentioned elsewhere.
Yes, I know he finally managed to choke out a concession. About fucking time, too.