Before Wisconsin, Foxconn Vowed Big Spending in Brazil. Few Jobs Have Come.<br />“The area where Foxconn said it would build a plant is totally abandoned,” said Guilherme<br />Gazzola, the mayor of Itu, one of the cities that hoped to benefit from the project.<br />At a news conference in Brazil, Foxconn officials unveiled plans to invest billions of dollars<br />and build one of the world’s biggest manufacturing hubs in the state of São Paulo.<br />In 2013, the company, which has a small office in Harrisburg, said it intended<br />to build a $30 million factory in the state that could employ 500 workers.<br />Mr. Gou made pledges; won tax breaks and government concessions;<br />and announced plans to spend billions of dollars to create tens of thousands of jobs in multiple countries.<br />With regard to the Wisconsin project, Foxconn has said it plans to build one of the<br />world’s largest manufacturing campuses in the southeastern part of the state.<br />“We do not believe Pennsylvania is out of the running for any particular project,” David Smith, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of Community<br />and Economic Development in Harrisburg, said about Foxconn’s commitment in the state.
