Pinal County economically charged heading into 2019
by Callan Smith | Rose Law Group Reporter
Elliott Pollack speaking to the crowd at Rawhide. / Photo by Callan Smith
The economic outlook for 2019 is good according to Elliott Pollack, who spoke to a large crowd at Rawhide for the twelfth year in a row at a Pinal Partnership event.
Which is especially true for Pinal County, which has seen not one, but two significant employers, Nikola Corp and Lucid, come to the county within 2018, something Pollack hasn’t seen before. They have the potential to create 10,000 jobs, with only partially coming from direct employment. The rest will come from indirect and induced employment in support of those workers and growth.
There are about 60,000 jobs in Pinal County, giving an increase of 15 percent with normal growth on top of that, which is a big deal.
The new norm for Arizona is a strong economy with all the action in Maricopa and Pinal counties, Pollack said.
