SPARKS, Nev. (AP) -- A sprawling industrial park near Reno has become the focus of Tesla's unusually secretive site selection process for its $5 billion battery factory, but the groundwork there is no guarantee that the plant and its 6,500 jobs are coming.
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Lance Gilman knows the bidding war with Texas, California, New Mexico and Arizona has just begun now that the electric-car maker has confirmed the first stage of preparation for a "gigafactory."
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Gilman is the director of the Reno Tahoe Industrial Center, where the groundwork is taking place.
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Tesla chairman and CEO Elon Musk says the company wants to do similar site work in one or two other states before the company starts pouring concrete.
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But Gilman likes Nevada's chances of landing the plant. He says no one else "has even left the starting gate" but the site near Reno is "ready to go tomorrow."
