posted January 07, 2015 11:19 AM
Kawasaki USA Headquarters up for sale!! Anybody have $50,000,000 worth of spare change that's burning a hole in their pocket??
You can own this 22.44 Acres of prime industrial property in Irvine California!!!
posted January 07, 2015 08:11 PM
Very interesting. The empty lot next door is also up for sale.
Any idea why Kawasaki is selling? Are they downsizing, upsizing, or maybe moving to Texas like Toyota to escape California's high taxes?
posted January 07, 2015 10:39 PM
Edited By: fish_antlers on 8 Jan 2015 06:42
Lotta good times and bad blood will be left behind in that building. All the employees they culled. It's pretty heavy. A lot of good soldiers taken out in that place.
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posted January 10, 2015 12:48 AM
Reminds me of ATT Wireless ... not to be confused with ATT Mobile.
ATT Wireless was a startup division that was going to put in wireless (wi-fi) internet at the street corner in major cities, and you would buy/rent the reciever from them. Business plan fell apart when someone actually looked at the economics and upper management decided to pull the plug on the project.
So they let everyone go that worked in two 250,000 sq ft buildings at the same time...
I was brought in to decomission some data servers and prep the gear for shipment.
Walking around the place looked like a neutron bomb had gone off...everything was still in place...people's cubes still had desktop computers, hell, I was able to make a pot of coffee while I was waiting for the gear to shut down. Definately had that 'ghost town' feel.
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posted January 10, 2015 05:47 AM
Similar here worked in the brand new HQ for Nokia North America. They abandoned the place ... amazing building. Left everything behind. Pulled the hard drives and walked away. There's a great show about stuff like this called Forgotten Planet on Discovery and also on Netflix. They have a freaky version called Abandoned America. Totally cool and worth watching!
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posted January 11, 2015 03:24 PM
1st Toyota, now Kawasaki....epic moves...
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posted January 12, 2015 04:04 PM
Who wants to live in a liberal, "tax everyone to death" state such as CA? Its a mass exodus out of there.
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posted January 29, 2015 02:25 AM
Edited By: moko on 29 Jan 2015 10:28
I work background in movies/tv in Georgia....lots of Californians moved here in film production.....pinewood studios has already built a studio here....and 2 more huge studios are already green lighted by the gov here....atlanta and norcross
Besides the the tax break Georgia is giving,were a non-union state......still have SAG-AFTRA union here too....but lots of other businesses moving here .one friend just went from non-union background work,to signing a contract with major network this year.....its looking real good here in Georgia for business ...."above all else...guard your heart"
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.one friend just went from non-union background work,to signing a contract with major network this year.....its looking real good here in Georgia for business ...."above all else...guard your heart" 