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Subsidy Tracker Individual Entry

Company: Volvo
Parent Company: Geely
Subsidy Source: multiple
Location: South Carolina
County: Berkeley
Project Description: auto manufacturing facility
Year: 2015
Major Industry of Parent: motor vehicles
Specific Industry of Parent: automobiles
Subsidy Value: $212,000,000
Program Name: multiple
Awarding Agency: multiple
Type of Subsidy: 
Capital Investment: $500,000,000
Source of Data: The value of the package is taken from: Cassie Cope, "Legislators to mull $123 million in borrowing for Volvo," The State, June 2, 2015; online at (click here). Jobs, investment and information on readySC are taken from a press release issued by the SC Commerce Department on May 11, 2015; online at (click here)
Notes: State and local level subsidy package includes: $123 million in economic development bonds issued by the state that will pay for the site ($54 million) and roads ($69 million); $30 million in grants from the state's Department of Commerce; a $54 million grant from the state-owned Santee Cooper utility company that will pay for land purchase; $5 million from Berkeley County to help out also with buying the land. The amount does not include: $87 million in interest that the state will pay on the bonds, the value of multi-year per-job tax credits, the cost of multi-year fee-in-lieu agreement (property tax abatements) with Berkeley County, and the cost of worker recruitment and training provided by readySC. Overlaps with main Subsidy Tracker data: none.
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