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Archive Mount Pleasant, WI

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Wisconn Valley Science and Technology Park (Foxconn)

Foxconn Way, Mount Pleasant, WI 53177 approximate location

The 2017 plan centered on a Gen 10.5 LCD factory and 13,000 jobs. That factory was not built. The smaller manufacturing campus continued operating, however: Wisconsin's economic-development agency verified 1,242 jobs and nearly $717 million invested through December 2024, followed by a separate November 2025 expansion commitment.

What got built

Current photograph of Wisconn Valley Science and Technology Park (Foxconn) in Mount Pleasant.
Photograph by Chad Davis from Minneapolis, United States, Taken on 28 December 2023, 16:45. Source. CC BY 2.0.

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What changed

  • The 2017 announcement called for a $10 billion Gen 10.5 LCD manufacturing complex and 13,000 jobs by 2022.
  • The original WEDC contract made Foxconn eligible for up to $2.85 billion in state performance-based incentives. Broader state and local infrastructure costs reported elsewhere use a different scope and should not be described as state subsidies paid directly to Foxconn.
  • Foxconn abandoned the Gen 10.5 LCD factory plan by January 2019 and shifted the Wisconsin campus toward smaller-scale manufacturing, data-center and server-related work.
  • The 2021 amended contract reduced the employment and investment thresholds and made Foxconn eligible for up to $80 million in performance-based credits, not $8 million.
  • WEDC reported that it had verified 1,242 jobs and nearly $717 million in investment as of December 31, 2024, with $62.9 million in earned credits.
  • In November 2025, Foxconn announced a further $569 million investment and 1,374 additional jobs by 2029; the announcement did not reinstate the original Gen 10.5 LCD plan.
  • Microsoft's adjacent data-center development occupies parcels sold from the business park and is a separate project, not fulfillment of Foxconn's original factory plan.

Why it changed

Foxconn replaced the original Gen 10.5 LCD plan with a smaller and different Wisconsin operation. The 2021 amended WEDC contract reset performance thresholds, and verified employment and investment later grew under that revised scope; neither development delivered the original LCD-factory commitment.

Details

Status
Built, with documented differences from the rendering.
Where
Mount Pleasant, WI
Neighborhood
I-94 corridor
Developer
Foxconn Technology Group
Architect
Not identified in the sources reviewed
Rendering credit
Foxconn Technology Group, released with the state of Wisconsin's Wisconn Valley announcement
The built result
Photographed by Chad Davis from Minneapolis, United States, Taken on 28 December 2023, 16:45

Sources

  1. WEDC: verified Foxconn performance and November 2025 expansion wedc.org
  2. NBC Chicago: 2025 accounting of Wisconsin public spending nbcchicago.com
  3. Foxconn Wisconsin: current company site foxconnwiofficial.com

Research checked . Status and figures are updated when a source changes.

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