The Winston-Salem Journal reports:
Caterpillar Inc. has compiled a short list of companies that are in the running to be chosen as the general contractor for its planned $426 million manufacturing plant in Forsyth County. But as many feared, none of them is local.
Caterpillar declined to identify any of the companies or say how many are on the list, but several companies have confirmed that they are in contention.
However, one of the contractors competing for the bid is a “joint venture” of Michigan-based Barton Malow and Greensboro-based Samet Corp. And there is still hope among the powers-that-be in W-S that local subcontractors will get business.
