By Eric Jay Toll | Phoenix Business Journal
With all eyes on Arizona just days ahead of Super Bowl XLIX this past winter, Gov. Doug Ducey and a coterie of state officials managed to convince Apple Inc. to give the state another chance and locate its iCloud command center in its former sapphire manufacturing plant.
That’s the story Ducy’s chief of staff, Kirk Adams, shared with me yesterday. This is one deal Arizona stole out from under another city. Nondisclosure agreements prohibit dealmakers from identifying that market.