"The Gigafactory investment project has taken a big step forward" with thepositive vote from the Brandenburg parliament's finance committee, regionalfinance minister Katrin Lange said. The idiosyncratic billionaire will hope his project does not run into the delays that have kept the new Berlin-Brandenburg airport nearby shuttered for close to a decade after its originally scheduled opening date. Brandenburg, an the state surrounding Berlin, has high hopes that Tesla's touchdown could bring thousands of high quality jobs. Berlin daily Der Tagesspiegel reported this week that bomb disposal teamsare already combing the woods on Tesla's future plot for leftover World War IImunitions. READ ALSO: New Tesla factory to be built near Berlin

Source: The Local January 09, 2020 15:00 UTC