Updated 8:20 p.m. to reflect comments from Pacetti.
Word that Foxconn plans to build three assembly plants before it would have its main complex up and running is news to Kenosha City officials.
City Administrator Frank Pacetti, whose been working on attracting Foxconn's proposed huge L-C-D plant to the Kenosha area for months, heard about the assembly plant report from a reporter just last night.
On Monday, a Foxconn officials told the Reuters news service that the assembly plants would be built in Wisconsin as early as next year, several years before completion of a plant to manufacture high-tech, liquid-crystal display panels.
That factory is the lynchpin of a $10 billion investment Foxconn has promised for southeastern Wisconsin--- in exchange for a $3 billion dollar package of incentives.
Foxconn declined to say how many jobs would be created at the assembly plants.
A hearing on the state's incentive package was held at iMET in Sturtevant on Tuesday. The Assembly has already passed the plan. The Senate is expected to vote before the end of September.
Racine and Kenosha counties are in the running for the plant, described as 20 times larger than Amazon.
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