Biden to make first visit to Syracuse as president today to celebrate Micron’s megafab plans - syracuse.com

Syracuse, N.Y. -- President Joe Biden, who lived successful Syracuse arsenic a instrumentality schoolhouse pupil successful the 1960s, volition instrumentality to the metropolis contiguous to item Micron Technology Inc.’s program to physique a $100 cardinal semiconductor works successful adjacent Clay.

The visit, Biden’s archetypal since becoming president past year, is simply a accidental for him to instrumentality a triumph thigh implicit his efforts to bring semiconductor manufacturing backmost to the U.S.

The U.S. leads the satellite successful machine spot design, but astir fabrication is done successful Asia. That became a occupation for the U.S. erstwhile proviso concatenation issues caused by the coronavirus pandemic resulted successful a large shortage of the devices, which are captious components successful virtually each integer user product, including automobiles and compartment phones, and each large defence systems and platforms.

Biden persuaded Congress to walk the $280 cardinal Chips and Science Act this summer, which includes $52 cardinal successful incentives for companies to physique semiconductor factories successful the U.S. Biden -- with a batch of assistance from Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer -- spent much than a twelvemonth rallying bipartisan support for the bill.

Micron announced Oct. 4 that it has selected White Pine Commerce Park successful Clay for a megafab that it says volition make 9,000 nonstop jobs and much than 40,000 enactment jobs successful Central New York implicit the adjacent 20 years, arsenic good arsenic 5,000 operation jobs. The determination followed months of lobbying by Schumer, Hochul and McMahon -- and a state inducement package worthy astir $6 cardinal implicit 20 years.

Biden volition get astatine Syracuse Hancock International Airport connected Air Force One, past proceed to Onondaga Community College for an quality with Micron President and CEO Sanjay Mehrotra, Gov. Kathy Hochul, Schumer, Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon and different federal, authorities and section officials astatine SRC Arena. He volition beryllium the first president to sojourn the college successful its 61-year history.

The White House released a much elaborate docket of the travel Wednesday evening. The president is scheduled to depart Andrews Air Force Base astatine 12:45 p.m. and get astatine Syracuse airdrome astatine 1:50 p.m. He’s scheduled to talk astatine OCC astatine 3:30 p.m. and depart Syracuse astatine 5:15 p.m.

Micron volition besides outline the archetypal signifier of circumstantial investments it plans to marque to assistance physique its Central New York workforce. The company, a starring shaper of representation chips, has pledged to put $250 cardinal successful assemblage and workforce development, with a absorption connected disadvantaged populations, implicit the duration of the project. State, section and nationalist partners are expected to put different $250 cardinal successful the effort.

The Idaho-based company, the world’s fourth largest semiconductor manufacturer, volition person interactive booths and exhibits astatine the invitation-only lawsuit astatine OCC to item the company’s manufacturing capabilities and plans to collaborate with and put successful the community.

New York State Police accidental motorists should expect traffic delays connected interstates 81 and 690 successful some directions from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.

The Federal Aviation Administration is restricting immoderate formation operations astatine the airdrome and wrong a 12-mile radius astir the airdrome from 1:15 p.m. to 6:15 p.m.

Regularly scheduled commercialized and cargo flights, instrumentality enforcement flights, subject craft flights straight supporting the U.S. Secret Service and bureau of the president, and approved aerial ambulance flights volition beryllium allowed to proceed but for little windows instantly preceding the accomplishment of Air Force One, portion the president is connected the crushed astatine the airdrome and instantly preceding his departure.

Biden and his archetypal wife, Neilia, lived successful a first-floor flat successful a location astatine 608 Stinard Ave. successful Syracuse’s Strathmore vicinity from 1966 to 1968 portion helium attended Syracuse University’s College of Law. Neilia was an English teacher astatine adjacent Bellevue Elementary School.

While this volition beryllium Biden’s archetypal sojourn to Syracuse arsenic president, helium has travel backmost to the metropolis aggregate times since his instrumentality schoolhouse days to be household weddings and a friend’s funeral, to ticker football games successful the Carrier (now JMA Wireless) Dome, and to springiness commencement speeches. He adjacent visited his aged home connected Stinard Avenue arsenic vice president successful 2009.

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