A future filled with promise
Times Union
Sunday, April 20, 2008
MALTA - When you ask officials in Dutchess County whether New York's investments in IBM Corp.'s computer chip fab expansion in East Fishkill were worth the price, they don't skip a beat.
"Those are the highest-paying jobs outside of the finance industry," said Anne Conroy, president of the Dutchess County Economic Development Corp. "It is wealth-creating. It is impossible to undervalue the value to the economy."
IBM expanded and upgraded its technology at the East Fishkill chip fab in 2002 in a $2.5 billion project.
