| Danville attracts call center jobs
Virginia Business
June 2004
Danville
knows all about losing jobs to foreign competitors.
So local officials enjoyed an ironic twist in April
when a Mexico-based firm announced that it was sending
a slew of new jobs to Danville. Telvista Inc., headquartered
in Tijuana, will open a 62,000-square-foot inbound technical
support call center in the city’s Airside Industrial
Park later this year, a move that promises to bring
600 jobs to the Southside region over the next 30 months.
The decision by Telvista, which provides customer contact
centers around the world, to expand its operations into
Virginia was not made by chance. Danville joined forces
with the Virginia Economic Development Partner-ship
and lobbied hard for the opportunity, offering Telvista
a $200,000 grant from the Governor’s Opportunity
Fund and another $300,000 in Tobacco Region Opportunity
Funds from the Virginia Tobacco Indemnifi-cation and
Community Revitalization Com-mission. The company is
also eligible to receive further tax credits for locating
in an enterprise zone.
Telvista CEO Higinio Sanchez admitted that the incentives
helped the company choose Danville over Arizona, North
Carolina and other states interested in hosting a new
call center, but he also said that Danville’s
business-friendly environment and large pool of “motivated”
potential employees to choose from were definite bonuses.
The company plans to begin hiring by the end of the
year.
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