volkswagen

The turnkey aspect of Chattanooga’s site was the determining factor in bringing Volkswagen to Tennessee:

The key issue was speed. Volkswagen wants the plant to be up and running by the end of 2010.

Bedford County's top industrial recruiter said his top priority during a trip to Germany last month was to try to help Bedford County's existing automotive suppliers do business with Volkswagen, and...

From the Knoxville News Sentinel:

Neither our economic troubles nor our state’s budget woes will keep Volkswagen from descending on Chattanooga:

But they might take away our Volkswagen plant if we don’t get this straightened out:

Sen. Lamar Alexander says Congress urgently needs to agree on how to address America’s financial crisis that is already reaching far beyond Wall Street.

Ben Cunningham is unhappy about our state Commissioner of Economic and Community Development’s use of state-owned aircraft:

Some say that bringing Volkswagen to Chattanooga cannot possibly make up for the precipitous decline of manufacturing jobs across the state:

The recent acquisition of Budweiser by a Belgium Company has resulted in a lot of conversation about the virtue of drinking American beer and buying American products. In the local coverage of the issue, live from Bobby’s Idle Hour Lounge, Todd Milsap, son of country music legend Ronnie Milsap said, "I'm not hip with it. I drink Budweiser, and I don't do foreign beers.

If you thought Matt Kisber and Phil Bredesen would be content to rest on their Volkswagen-bagging laurels, you got another thing coming. Ken Whitehouse has the skinny on the hunt to get a corporate powerhouse ensconced in Clarksville’s TVA Mega Site.

Andy Sher and friend report on the historic incentives afforded Volkswagen:

Tennessee offered its richest incentive package — and perhaps the most government assistance and tax breaks ever for an American automobile plant — to lure Volkswagen to Chattanooga.