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| GBIC Contract Attorney Sossi on Skype |
A resourceful City Attorney Mark Sossi, rose from his sick bed to join the meeting via Skype, perhaps mindful of the $5,000 per month stipend he receives from the GBIC for part-time legal advice. With the absence of David Betancourt and Jessica Tetreau-Kalifa, Ed Sikes served as chairman.
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| Gilberto Salinas |
Salinas spoke of Project Panther and Project Nocturnal, entailing two firms that want to do launches from Boca Chica, but on "a smaller scale" than Space Exploration Technologies, SpaceX. Perhaps, all of us should pay our eight mile long pristine beach one last nostalgic visit before the commercial launches begin in 2016.
SpaceX has already erected a "temporary building" on site, according to Salinas, with "solar panels" for energy. Project Stargate, a partnership between UTB and SpaceX, has commenced.
Project Sizzle, involving a Finnish firm's intention to build a metal foundry at the Port of Brownsville, will "hopefully receive a commitment" in early 2015. Salinas gushes that the project has "grown" from a single foundry to "two foundries and a machine plant." He cautions that "we're" still in competition with Monterrey, Mexico for the project and that "over 3,000 jobs" are on the line. Salinas admits that wages would be lower in Monterrey, but iterates that power is three times as expensive in Mexico as in Brownsville.
In rapid-fire Salinas touches on Project Front Door, Project Ladder, Project Mandarin and Project Islander.
One of the above is a plan for a Canadian company to create a distribution center for frozen chicken to be shipped into Mexico. The hope is that the firm will utilize 200,000 square feet of the defunct Titan Tire building. Brownsville is competing with "three other states" for that project.
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| Governor-Elect Greg Abbott |
Again, headlines no story. Useless, Jim.
ReplyDeleteI agree. The offering is useless to those without imagination or a sense of the local situation.
ReplyDeleteNothing tied down here, all speculation. Regarding power being "three times" as expensive in Mexico, Monterrey sits next to one of the largest natural gas basins, Burgos, in the world. https://bakerinstitute.org/files/7500/
ReplyDeleteYes. The same hyperbole.
DeleteCarlos Cascos' selection to serve as Secy of State is a reflection of Carlos Cascos....not of Brownsville or any thing going on in Brownsville. Just like Tony Martinez seems willing to take credit for SpaceX....now the city wants to take credit for Carlos Cascos new position......what pithy, self serving assholes we have in city government.
ReplyDeletePithy? You must be a Brown pussy!
DeleteA woman was killed after police said she was hit by a vehicle while she was chasing her boyfriend on a highway early Saturday near downtown.
ReplyDeleteVeronica Benavides, 29, was arguing with her boyfriend in a parking lot at Boca Chica Boulevard and the main highway, according to a police report.
When he left the location, chased the man, who walked across the main lanes of Highway 83 northbound near Alamo Street, the report stated.
Benavides was struck in the back by a vehicle as she crossed, suffering major head trauma. She was pronounced dead at 12:48 a.m. when EMS arrived.
Police said there was no criminal conduct on the part of the driver.
Go away.
DeleteWHO, WHAT KIND OF PERSON is walking around a major highway at 12:48 am in Brownsville? This town has very few sidewalks and the sidewalks it has are all broken up. I am not blaming the victim, BUT, why are you fighting with your boyfriend at that time at that particular area? No criminal conduct on the part of the driver that hit her tells you it was HER to blame.
DeleteSossi's dad died on Thanksgiving day. That takes a lot out of you.
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