Montgomery County and Maryland hit the snooze button again, and Virginia picked up another economic development victory while their rivals across the Potomac slept. Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace announced this week that it has chosen Virginia as the location for a new cruise missile production facility. The 150,000-square-foot complex will be constructed in James City County, and will manufacture Kongsberg's Naval Strike Missiles and Joint Strike Missiles. Both are anticipated to remain in high demand, and the Norwegian firm believes it is likely to win another contract from the U.S. Department of Defense soon.
A press release from the office of Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin said Virginia beat out two unidentified states in the competition for the Kongsberg facility. Youngkin made his winning case to Kongsberg during his trade mission to Europe this past April. While Youngkin was sealing the deal in Europe, the Montgomery County Council was passing legislation regulating hours for hookah lounges.
The factory will create more than 180 high-wage jobs. And this is actually the second Kongsberg production facility Maryland has lost out on; Pennsylvania won the first one in 2008, and the firm announced it will be expanding its Johnstown operation to handle the increased demand. It seems Kongsberg factories are dropping out of the sky everywhere around us, but landing everywhere but here. Such high-wage job creation is desperately needed not only in Montgomery County, but across Maryland from Cumberland and Hagerstown to Baltimore and Salisbury.
"Kongsberg's decision to establish its first U.S. defense assembly facility in Virginia reaffirms our status as America's top state for business," Youngkin said in a statement Tuesday. In contrast, a January report from the Maryland Comptroller's Office "found that Maryland is behind neighboring states and the nation in gross domestic product, personal income, real wages and population growth," the Associated Press reported.
Photo courtesy Kongsberg
Hey the hours of the local Hookah bar are important. 😆
ReplyDeleteLMAO, would not expect MoCo to get may big business contracts as all the county wants to do is micro-mahage peoples lives, raise ttaxes and soend money especially on illegals and other useless epensive social welfare programs including millions oon criminals only to have them reoffend again and again!
ReplyDeleteIf these people ran a funeral parlor no one would die.
ReplyDeleteWhich means we'd be stuck with YOU forever.
DeleteMontgomery county is a sanctuary county run by a socialist left ‘executive’, and has been for years . Grew up there and had to move out. To many illegals and foreigners that have no idea if our traditions, culture or pastimes. They have brought their own culture and it is destroying the state!!
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DeleteThanks for leaving, now leave well enough alone JD.
DeleteMontgomery County is really bad,I've seen people going to the bathroom in the bus shelters at Lakeforest Mall and at Walnut Hill shopping center ride on bus stop shelters,people literally deficate inside the bus shelters.The County is being destroyed by liberal politics.
DeleteIf you don't believe me about people using the ride on bus stops as bathrooms, all you have to do is go to the Walnut Hill bus stop on the side of 355 heading north. The stop closest to 7-Eleven. You will see.But it's at many bus stops,not only that one.
ReplyDeleteIf you think conservatives are better about providing public access to bathrooms then I don't know what to tell you.
DeleteYou're funny,I believe it's probably some of the alcoholics that hang around the liquor store at Walnut Hill shopping center, the main problem is that the police don't tell them to leave the shopping center, especially if they are drunk or drinking,which is happening a lot there.Going to the bathroom in public is just another sign of society breaking down. You are not supposed to loiter around shopping centers, but we know the story on that here in Montgomery County 😆
DeletePolice don't police shopping centers, someone has to put un a call for disorderly conduct or some other nuisance to summons them. If they don't these petty offenses go unnoticed.
DeleteWhere is Montgomery county waste management? No
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Where are Montgomery's public restrooms?
ReplyDeleteI've never heard of public restrooms at a small shopping center like Walnut Hill, it seems that would only encourage more vagrants and loitering. In years past people go to the bathroom in public would probably have been institutionalized, many of these people could be having mental health issues or be violent, it's a bad to let these people harass paying customers who only want to shop or eat.
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