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GlobeSt.com UPDATE: Siemens Incentives Package for Call Center Grows to $1.8 Mil

ORLANDO-Orange County is kicking in $367,000 worth of tax breaks over six years on a promise the company will create 637 new jobs paying an average $43,475 at its planned 225,000-sf, $40 million call center in Quadrangle Office Park, adjacent to its two existing 225,000-sf buildings.

By Alex Finkelstein | Updated on November 08, 2001

ORLANDO-Siemens Westinghouse Corp., one of the area’s largest employers with a work force of 5,000, is getting a financial sweetener in its plans to build a $40 million, 225,000-sf call center in Quadrangle Office Park in east Orlando.

Orange County is giving the locally based division of German-based Siemens AG $367,000 worth of tax breaks over six years on a promise the company will create 637 new jobs paying an average $43,475.The state is kicking in with a $1.4 million incentives package.

For Siemens, the deal means it will be getting back 85% of the $430,000 in property taxes it would pay over six years. For the county, Siemens’ projection that only 19 of the 637 jobs will pay an average $98,000 is disappointing. The county had hoped for a much larger number of high-paying jobs.

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