AT&T & Indiana

There was news today that AT&T is planning to open a $22 million, 75,000-square-foot call center in Evansville to handle customer care for its wireless business-to-business organization. Although a location for the new call center has not yet been determined, it will generate about 565 new jobs for the Evansville area.

As a side note, the Indianapolis Business Journal published an article on Friday called "Indiana turns up schmoozing efforts" (great title). Peter Schnitzler wrote:

Economic development officials say networking is the first step in a process that, when successful, leads to industrial plant expansions and company headquarters relocation. Travel, food, gifts and entertainment, they argue, are a necessary cost of attracting jobs to Indiana. From Feb. 1, 2005, to Feb. 28, 2007, IndianaÕs price tag for greasing the wheels of progress was $1.06 million.

Nathan Feltman, the Indiana Secretary of Commerce, said, "We're starting to hear that Indiana is getting aggressive."

Was AT&T schmoozed, I wonder?

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