The mood at Tulare City Hall is one of cautious optimism these days because a group of food industry veterans is proposing to build a cheese processing plant that would employ 220 people at good wages.
"Anytime you get 220 jobs in Tulare, and these aren't minimum wage jobs, I can support that," Mayor David Macedo says.
The average annual wage would be about $46,000, plus benefits, Calicheese Company LLC told the city.
City officials are careful not to get too excited because high-profile projects sometimes fail. But Calicheese signed an agreement last week to buy 59.67 acres of city property for $2,091,600, or $35,000 an acre. The company has six months to get its financing together.
To read the rest of the story, please go to: The Fresno Bee