County executive calls Carrier interest significant

I was talking to County Executive Kenneth Rogers the other day and the topic came up about the Carrier building. OK, so the topic came up because I brought it up.

When I asked, Kenneth told me there is some pretty significant interest in the building from a company that would bring around 700 manufacturing jobs here. I asked and asked, but Kenneth wouldn’t tell me the name of the business, and believe me I tried.

Kenneth said he signed a confidentiality agreement with the company where he wouldn’t reveal its identity. And say what you want about Kenneth (and I usually do), but he is a man of his word. He refused to break the confidentiality agreement.

Kenneth did say if this company located to the Carrier building, it would need to expand the facility to nearly twice its current size. Folks, that’s almost 2 million square feet. What kind of industry would need so much space?

I think it’s a promising sign the company is serious enough about this area to use a confidentiality agreement. But I think it should also be stressed that any deal will take a considerable amount of time. In other words, don’t get too excited about filling out an application.