Residents in Peoria, Arizona are voicing their discontent over Amkor's plan to significantly increase the size and height of a planned chip packaging plant. They allege they were initially misled about the project's scale, claiming it would be less than half a million square feet. Now, the proposal has ballooned to over 2 million square feet, prompting concerns about the plant's impact on the residential community.
Residents in Peoria claim they were “misled” and “lied to” over Amkor ’s development plans to build a high-tech chip packaging plant just off Loop 303 in Five North at Vistancia.'We were originally told that Amkor was coming that it was going to be no more than 500,000 square feet total over two phases, and the max height for it would be 54 feet,” Megan Staub, a resident near the Amkor site told ABC15. “Our last community meeting with Amkor presented that it's now going to be about 2.
In an email, Peoria City Councilmember Matt Bullock said the decision to scale up was a business need, and that Amkor always had the ability to expand under the zoning and entitlements on the property that date back to the 1990s.'Since there was only a little bit of space to build out , they had to build up and add a second floor to double the assembly lines in each of the 2 buildings,” Bullock told ABC15 in an email.
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