Foxconn puts its empty buildings in Wisconsin up for sale

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Hey, remember when Foxconn bought a bunch of buildings around Wisconsin just before an election and said it was building innovation centers" around the state in a transparent attempt to build support for the giant tax credits it was given to build an LCD factory that never arrived? Yeah, it's selling two of those buildings. The news was first reported by Wisconsin Public Radio, which got a quote from Foxconn saying that selling its Green Bay property, known as the Watermark building, will add to the vibrancy of the city's downtown." Very good.

You might recall two of these buildings, in Eau Claire and Green Bay, because The Verge's Josh Dzieza went and looked in the windows months after they were purchased and noticed they were empty....

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