We want to congratulate Performance Door and Hardware Inc. on their recent announcement that they were expanding their facility in Kissimmee and making it their corporate headquarters. Any company involved in the construction business who has the ability to expand right now is doing something right in our book.
At the same time, the press release on this expansion, seemingly issued by the county economic development department, notes that the expansion will bring 10 jobs to the area, and the company is expanding their building space by 8,000 square feet.
Frankly, economic development department, we need to see deals of this scale at least once a month. Every two weeks would be better. Once a month brings 120 jobs a year to the area. Every two weeks brings 260 a year. That’s about the job gain of that ‘big win,’ the Lowe’s distribution center, that still remains on the economic development department’s reference list, even after Lowe’s has experienced the rollercoaster of construction demand.
Obviously, if it takes years to close a big win, the numbers say more contacts must be made to increase the frequency of those deals. But the same is true if a big win has gone from 250 employees to 10 employees.
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With the way people are moving out of the area, I don't think that they really need to add that many jobs. Get out now if you can!
I am saving my pennies. I hope to be out of here and retired within a few years.
Better be saving more than pennies, especially with a bailout plan that will decimate the dollar.
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