QuoteJacksonville is No. 4 in the country on a per capita basis when it comes attracting technology-skilled workers, according to research supplied by LinkedIn.
For every 10,000 tech workers already in the region, Jacksonville saw 136 workers move here between May 2020 to April 2021.
https://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/news/2021/06/04/tech-jobs-jacksonville.html
This is per capita so it might be easy to rank high if the number of existing tech workers is low.
Jax has popped up on a few of these.
You'd think some folks would be more excited. But, eh, ......................
Quote from: bl8jaxnative on June 07, 2021, 04:48:31 PM
Jax has popped up on a few of these.
You'd think some folks would be more excited. But, eh, ......................
Great news for the Southside!
Quote from: bl8jaxnative on June 07, 2021, 04:48:31 PM
Jax has popped up on a few of these.
You'd think some folks would be more excited. But, eh, ......................
JTA seems to argue things like this as to why the U2C is a good idea. Or, as Councilmember Pittman put it, making Jacksonville "the Silicon Valley of the East." But of course, if all the companies moving here are doing so to neighborhoods that aren't served by the U2C's planned route, and for reasons that are completely unrelated to autonomous vehicles, I would fail to see how it's really a justification at all.
I personally find it a real indictment on JTA's part that none of the companies in the electric or autonomous vehicle field, many of whom have either opened new offices or built new factories in the last few years, chose Jacksonville as where to locate those facilities. Arrival went to Charlotte, North Carolina. Local Motors went to Knoxville, Tennessee. Navya went to Saline, Michigan. EasyMile went to Denver, Colorado. Oceaneering is testing 2getthere vehicles in Orlando. What does it say that even Miami can get the builder of their new Metrorail cars to make them in the area, but we're supposed to spend nearly half a billion dollars on infrastructure for vehicles built in other states?
Quote from: marcuscnelson on June 08, 2021, 12:29:09 AM
Quote from: bl8jaxnative on June 07, 2021, 04:48:31 PM
Jax has popped up on a few of these.
You'd think some folks would be more excited. But, eh, ......................
JTA seems to argue things like this as to why the U2C is a good idea. Or, as Councilmember Pittman put it, making Jacksonville "the Silicon Valley of the East."
Someone has already registered siliconvalleyoftheeast.com
I was hoping to buy, have redirect to coj.net
Foiled.
Quote from: marcuscnelson on June 08, 2021, 12:29:09 AM
Quote from: bl8jaxnative on June 07, 2021, 04:48:31 PM
Jax has popped up on a few of these.
You'd think some folks would be more excited. But, eh, ......................
JTA seems to argue things like this as to why the U2C is a good idea. Or, as Councilmember Pittman put it, making Jacksonville "the Silicon Valley of the East." But of course, if all the companies moving here are doing so to neighborhoods that aren't served by the U2C's planned route, and for reasons that are completely unrelated to autonomous vehicles, I would fail to see how it's really a justification at all.
I personally find it a real indictment on JTA's part that none of the companies in the electric or autonomous vehicle field, many of whom have either opened new offices or built new factories in the last few years, chose Jacksonville as where to locate those facilities. Arrival went to Charlotte, North Carolina. Local Motors went to Knoxville, Tennessee. Navya went to Saline, Michigan. EasyMile went to Denver, Colorado. Oceaneering is testing 2getthere vehicles in Orlando. What does it say that even Miami can get the builder of their new Metrorail cars to make them in the area, but we're supposed to spend nearly half a billion dollars on infrastructure for vehicles built in other states?
IMO, they told the council whatever it needed to hear to secure the votes to get the LOGT passed. None of it makes any sense from someone in the industry, but's not the audience they had to convince. Instead it was a group, mostly made up of novices in that world. Jax won't be the Silicon Valley of anything and the U2C isn't changing that. I just hope we have some caveats to keep us from blowing local tax money when it is proven that some of this isn't remotely feasible.