At 20 million square feet, the factory would be three times the size of the Pentagon, making it one of the largest manufacturing campuses in the nation. It would initially employ 3,000 workers making an average of $53,900 a year plus benefits and could eventually boast more than four times that.

“America does not have a single LCD plant to produce a complicated system. We are going to change that," Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou said.

Walker called the deal "the single largest economic development project in the history of Wisconsin" and said it represented the most jobs ever to be plopped into an undeveloped parcel anywhere in the nation.

"This is literally number one," Walker said.



