Fort Worth isn’t just home to the Stockyards and Sundance Square anymore. Cowtown is now home to a plant that will produce the first smartphones ever assembled in the U.S.
It’s called the Moto X and it’s Motorola’s new flagship device.
Gov. Rick Perry is speaking shortly after noon today at the grand opening of Motorola Mobility Inc.’s new manufacturing facility on Alliance Gateway Freeway. KERA’s Lauren Silverman is at the scene. She reports that the building is 455,000 square feet and that about 2,500 employees are working there.
Motorola is owned by Google, whose executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, will be on hand at the event, as will Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside.
The factory will be run by Flextronics International Ltd., a Singapore-based contract electronics manufacturer that has had a long relationship with Motorola.
The Fort Worth location was once occupied by a Nokia plant, making repurposing easy.
Lauren has passed along some photos of the facility.
