AMD Builds Campus Amid Opposition
2006
Advanced Micro Devices builds a new campus in the sensitive Barton Springs Watershed despite community protest, a lawsuit, and in direct defiance of Austin's adopted Smart Growth policies.
The 1998 City of Austin's Smart Growth Intitiative influenced many high tech companies to locate in the Desired Development Zones and away from the fragile watershed including: Dell, Tivoli, Intel and Motorola (1997)
If AMD can locate in the Barton Springs watershed, why not other large employers? Twenty five years of community planning will be thrown out the window. No good can come of any project of this scale that begins with so much arrogance, deception, and disrespect for the community.
— Environmental Attorney Bill Bunch
