PEORIA, AZ — Residents in Peoria claim they were “misled” and “lied to” over Amkor’s development plans to build a high-tech chip packaging plant just off Loop 303 in Five North at Vistancia.
“We were originally told that Amkor was coming that it was going to be no more than 500,000 square feet total over two phases, and the max height for it would be 54 feet,” Megan Staub, a resident near the Amkor site told ABC15. “Our last community meeting with Amkor presented that it’s now going to be about 2.1 million square feet and 118 feet tall, so more than double what was originally told and sold to us.”
Staub, along with a handful of other local Peoria residents told ABC15 they did not find out about the change in scale of the project until a community meeting last week when Amkor Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff in the Business Unit told the crowd “we’ll be pretty close to the TSMC height,” but “about one-third of the TSMC area.”…