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Article: San Jose's goal: 'clean tech' king
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
- Article date:
- May 27, 2007
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - When solar-power-technology company Nanosolar
Inc. was deciding last year where to put a new manufacturing
facility, the Palo Alto firm was courted by cities worldwide, but its
most aggressive suitor was the nearby town of San Jose.
San Jose officials promised Nanosolar not only expedited business
permits, as other cities did, but offered a $1.5 million grant and
said it would help to retrain local workers in skills needed at the
new plant. San Jose officials served as property brokers, identifying
vacant industrial parks and showing Nanosolar executives around to
spare the company the cost of a real-estate agent. During the
monthslong courtship, city officials met with ...