IBM Invests in Tucson

IBM just made another $5 million commitment to Tucson. The past couple years of economic recession made big businesses stingy with capital investments and put communities on pins and needles about the possibilities of those businesses packing up and leaving town. But IBM bucked both trends with the build-out of a new high-tech customer briefing center at the University of Arizona Science and Technology Park, where the multi-national computer giant develops long-term storage systems technology.

“What it really showcases for Tucson is that we’re a center for technology. This gives us another selling point as to what Tucson is doing to advance its capacity for technology,” said Steve Weathers, president of the Greater Tucson Economic Council.

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