Deals with Auto Industry Boost Economic Development in Alabama.

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | Date: May 13, 2001 | Copyright information

By David Tortorano, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 13--When Alabama stunned the economic development world by landing a Mercedes-Benz plant in 1993, states that had lost the car manufacturer cried foul. They said Alabama single-handedly upped the ante in the incentives war to unprecedented levels; that the state gave away far too much to the German auto manufacturer.

Critics within the state, too, wondered why Alabama had agreed to a deal that seemed so one-sided. But proponents of the state's plan said Alabama had no choice, it had ...

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