{"id":6672,"date":"2012-05-17T11:41:20","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T16:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=6672"},"modified":"2012-05-17T11:41:20","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T16:41:20","slug":"aggressiveness-and-infrastructure-drove-boeing-jobs-from-wichita-to-okc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/05\/17\/aggressiveness-and-infrastructure-drove-boeing-jobs-from-wichita-to-okc\/","title":{"rendered":"Aggressiveness and Infrastructure Drove Boeing Jobs from Wichita to OKC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6673\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"A worker sands the top of a plane at Boeing's plant in Wichita, Kan.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/05\/boeing-wichita.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6673\" title=\"Boeing Plant in Wichita, Kans.\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/05\/boeing-wichita-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Larry W. Smith \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker sands the top of a plane at Boeing&#39;s plant in Wichita, Kan.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>Oklahoma City is <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/05\/10\/defense-bill-spares-oklahoma-citys-c-130-program-at-least-temporarily\/\">on track<\/a> to take more than 800 jobs from Wichita, and folks in Kansas are asking questions.<\/p><p>Why would Boeing sever historic ties and move its C-130 Hercules and B-1 Lancer programs to OKC?<\/p><p>From <em>Wichita Eagle<\/em> reporter Molly McMillin&#8217;s industry<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansas.com\/2012\/05\/17\/2337717\/wichitas-boeing-loss-is-oklahoma.html\"> postmortem<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oklahoma City\u2019s facility has a good track record, performs well and has space available, Michael Emmelhainz, Boeing\u2019s site leader for Oklahoma City told the paper. And costs are lower.<\/p><\/blockquote><p><!--more--><\/p><p>Faced with overhead costs, upcoming defense cuts and &#8220;little hope of bringing more work in,&#8221; Boeing in January announced plans to close the Wichita facilities, the <em>Eagle<\/em> reports. Some work is being moved to San Antonio and Washington state, but 800-900 workers will start transferring to OKC this fall.<\/p><p>And construction crews in OKC are building a new six-story office building for Boeing, which will soon grow to 2,000 workers. The building and its related costs are a big part Boeing&#8217;s move, the paper reports.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That\u2019s mainly because Boeing leases a four-story, 200,000-square-foot office building along with the 320,000-square-foot office building under construction. Workers there are moving into the first floor while work continues on the remaining floors.<\/p><p>\u201cWhen you lease just a couple buildings and do things in a low-cost manner like that, it makes a good business case,\u201d Emmelhainz said, \u201cIt really ends up being about building space and total infrastructure and costs associated with that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Oklahoma lawmakers and business leaders have made an impression with their aggressive appetite for the aviation industry, the <em>Eagle<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere\u2019s not a doubt in my mind that they would love to have every aerospace and engineering operation in San Antonio pick up and move to Oklahoma City and Tulsa,\u201d Jim Perschbach, a San Antonio lawyer who heads the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce Aerospace Committee, tells the paper.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma City is on track to take more than 800 jobs from Wichita, and folks in Kansas are asking questions.Why would Boeing sever historic ties and move its C-130 Hercules and B-1 Lancer programs to OKC?From Wichita Eagle reporter Molly McMillin&#8217;s industry postmortem: Oklahoma City\u2019s facility has a good track record, performs well and has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":6673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301,300],"tags":[372,312],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6680,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672\/revisions\/6680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}