California Loses 10,000 Jobs After Officials Skip Meetings With $3.2 Billion Port Company: ‘Now We Have Neither Houses Nor Jobs’

California just lost a $3.2 billion shipyard project and the 10,000 jobs that came with it. Instead, the project is going to Texas.

Saronic Technologies, an Austin-based company that builds autonomous vessels, spent more than a year considering Solano County for its new Port Alpha shipyard. This week, the company announced it will build the facility in Brownsville, Texas.

Now, California officials and project supporters are blaming each other for the lost deal…

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