By David Wichner | Arizona Daily Star
American Battery Factory on Thursday broke ground on the first phase of a 2 million-square-foot “gigafactory” to produce lithium iron-phosphate battery cells south of Tucson International Airport, promising $1.2 billion in capital investment and about 1,000 new jobs at full buildout.
Gov. Katie Hobbs and local government officials and business leaders wielded golden shovels at a groundbreaking ceremony in Pima County’s nascent Aerospace Research Campus, where the first phase of construction of the planned fabric-covered buildings is expected to be completed by Sprung Instant Structures by 2025.
