600 jobs may be coming to OKC

[Kerry]

Published on February 23, 2010 6:08 AM
By Wailin Wong

Motorola Inc. may be moving its headquarters to California after its mobile-phone unit splits off to become its own company.

On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal quoted co-Chief Executive Sanjay Jha as saying in an interview: "We'll go where that talent is, and right now, that looks like California."

The interview was held last week at Mobile World Congress, an industry show in Spain.

The most valuable resource in Oklahoma City area to leverage is your universities.

...and now the rest of story. If they move to California they will be leaving Chicago. Only Chicago (and Detroit) can make California look good.

Daily Herald | Motorola insists no decisions made on handset unit move

The comments followed a Wall Street Journal report Tuesday in which Motorola Co-CEO Sanjay Jha said he was "considering" a move of handset operations to California. The report offered no details on what kind of move might be considered or how many employees might be involved, and Motorola was not providing any more detail on Tuesday.

Jha came to Motorola from San Diego and still resides there, and Motorola has operations in Sunnyvale, Calif. San Diego officials said Tuesday they have not spoken with Motorola, but the company has wireless operations there and some vacant space. Officials in Sunnyvale declined to discuss issues involving a possible Motorola move.

[chemalurgy]

I'll just be glad when this recession is over and more jobs are available. Sigh.....

[progressiveboy]

I did a little investigating and it appears that RadioShack is looking to move out of Ft. Worth. They will need about 300,000 of office space that they plan to build. Could this be the office building near MidFirst that someone linked to awhile back? The timing of the RadioShack rumor and the release of proposed building at I-44 and I-235 are about the same - November of last year.

You can google 'RadioShack corporate relocation' and read several cryptic stories.

Here is the link to thread about the proposed tower at I-44 and Broadway Extension.

http://www.okctalk.com/okc-metro-are...oaday-ext.html

Saw this in the Dallas Business Journal:

RadioShack to stay in Fort Worth

http://dallas.bizjournals.com/dallas...8/daily50.html

[Thunder]

Okay, so the plan for RadioShack to relocate here gone bust.

[mugofbeer]

Who'se plan was it for that to happen? It looked like it was just board rumors.

[smooth]

Who'se plan was it for that to happen? It looked like it was just board rumors.

What is a "board rumor?"

According to the article, Oklahoma City was never approached. That makes me think the original poster fabricated this.

[mugofbeer]

a board rumor is when someone just decides to say something like Radio Shack moving their HQ to OKC without the remotest bit of substance - then the rumor takes on a life of it's own.

[Kerry]

a board rumor is when someone just decides to say something like Radio Shack moving their HQ to OKC without the remotest bit of substance - then the rumor takes on a life of it's own.

I tried to kill the 'rumor' back on post #56 with this.

Fact 5: There is no fact 5. The word 'rumor' might be a little strong. I prefer 'unsubstantiated wild and reckless speculation'.

I do find it interesting that Radio Shack only signed a deal for 6 years. That is only 3 years longer than they originally planned. Maybe the are waiting for the economy to improve before they move. They have 1700 people to relocated and this isn't the housing market for that kind of move.

[metro]

I'll just be glad when this recession is over and more jobs are available. Sigh.....

What recession. Market correction maybe, not to mention job creation is now at the highest in 18 months.

[Kerry]

What recession. Market correction maybe, not to mention job creation is now at the highest in 18 months.

That isn't saying much because the last 18 months have sucked. That is like saying the Clippers are having their best season in a decade.

[metro]

True, but the "recession" never really hit OK that hard, dispite us having tax revenue shortfalls (mainly caused by oil revenues down). We never had massive layoffs like most states.

[Kerry]

True, but the "recession" never really hit OK that hard, dispite us having tax revenue shortfalls (mainly caused by oil revenues down). We never had massive layoffs like most states.

Tru dat. I can tell you first hand there are people I work with here in Atlanta that have been asking what it is like to live in OKC. I usually start out by playing off the sterotypes. They start seeing how stupid the question is when I start mentioning that it is cool seeing the Indians hunting buffalo while you drive down the highway. Some even ask me if I am being serious. Then they realize it is like living anywhere else.

[okclee]

Thought I would bring this thread back up, with the talk of Devon building becoming available.

Read good information at Steve's Blog.

http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/