Can a green economy boom town be built to last?
When he bought a construction contractor called Weber Electric in 2018, Josh Mosier inherited about 20 employees. By the end of the next year, he was up to about 100 employees. By the spring of 2021, the number was over 225.
“Because of this boom,, said Mosier, whose company often works on large building projects, “we’ve grown exponentially.,
The epicenter of that boom is an electric-vehicle-maker named Rivian, which brought in Mosier’s company and others in the Normal, Illinois, area to work on the city’s costliest construction project in decades: a massive auto plant.
As it prepares to deliver its first electric pickup trucks and SUVs this year, Rivian has spent around $1.5 billion renovating and expanding a factory once owned by Mitsubishi.
