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Catawba officials approve Apple incentives

By Joe DePriest
jdepriest@charlotteobserver.com
Posted: Monday, Jul. 06, 2009

MAIDEN

Dirt could start moving as soon as August on a new $1 billion facility Apple is planning to build in Maiden, officials said Monday.

Catawba County commissioners and the Maiden Town Council approved incentives at a Monday evening meeting for the project, which is expected to create roughly 50 jobs 60 miles northwest of Charlotte.

The local incentives approved Monday are on top of changes to North Carolina law intended to attract the technology company. In June, Gov. Bev Perdue announced the expansion just hours after signing legislation that will cut the California-based computer company's tax bill in this state by about $46 million over a decade. Apple must agree to invest $1 billion over nine years in land, property and equipment to qualify for the benefit.

Before Monday, officials had not disclosed the location of Apple's planned data center, which is likely to support iTunes and the app store for the iPhone.

Read tomorrow's Charlotte Observer for more on this breaking story.

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