It takes more than a few curbs and gutters to get a whole section of a city ready for a large manufacturing plant.
Fortunately for the city of Phoenix, the part of the city limits where the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s $40 billion facility was largely not being used by anyone before development. While there is indigenous history and biology in the area, the city hasn’t had to displace current residents or businesses.
But there has been a great deal of infrastructure needed in the form of streets, storm drains, curbs, gutters and utility lines, allowing TSMC to hopefully hit its revised target of beginning chip manufacturing during first-quarter 2025.
