So let me explain.... This blog and adjoining social media accounts are to convince Tesla Motors to move it's Gigafactory to Tucson, AZ. It's a long shot, but in the age of social media anything is possible with an upbeat attitude.
I like to call Tucson the Oldest Futuristic City in America. I know how cheesy that sounds. But Tucson has always been home to forward thinking people who were willing to take on a challenge. Imagine how difficult it was for the first group of people to decide to cultivate farms in this desert. The first village was established in 2100 BC. The pyramids and sphinx in Egypt had only recently been finished. Since that time, this town has seen it's fair share of characters (and conquistadors, literally): Cabeza de Vaca ate cactus here, Wyatt Earp walked the streets, John Dillinger drank here (at bars that are still open), and astronauts learned how to explore the moon here. We attract the bizarre, the different, the outcasts, and the freaks. But those people often make for the most interesting individuals and are the people who go on to change the world. Here's a good example: our university students built a spacecraft, landed it on Mars, and explored another planet, before other countries have even gone into space or been to the moon.
And now Tucson has a shot at turning the corner on our future and becoming the city, we all know we could be. Palo Alto turned the corner with Hewlett-Packard, Austin turned the corner with Dell Computers, and Tesla Motors could be that for Tucson. The numbers don't lie. A 5 Billion dollar investment of private funds. 6,500 high paying jobs. The potential that Tucson could be a leader in energy research, production, innovation and distribution, is right within our grasp at a moment in time when the entire world truly needs these breakthroughs.
But what's the point? What can we do about it?
We can show Tesla why this place kicks ass. The great people. The amazing research. The new things that are being done and new businesses that have been started. The potential. We need to shake of this idea that we are a boring old town with nothing to offer. We need to share our stories, photos, cool experiences, great food, awesome research, badass sports (BEAR DOWN WILDCATS) with everyone who will listen. We need to make so much noise, that everyone starts talking about us.
This space will be used to post and share all breaking news on the Gigafactory, and what we can do to welcome Tesla to our city. I will also post ideas and cool things that are shared with me so that we can hopefully start to make waves.
Follow us on twitter at @TucsonforTesla and hashtag all your inspirational posts #TucsonForTesla. If enough of us can get the word out there, maybe the powers that be at Tesla motors will give our town a look over and decide what so many others have over the years. That this would be a good home for them.
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