Don’t believe everything you hear.

Fort Collins’ business circles have been buzzing in recent weeks with rumors that Hyundai was having trouble getting its planned Eugene, Ore.,

facility under way. The implication was that cities that had lost out in the contest for Hyundai’s favor might get a second chance.

Those hopes were eliminated Dec. 22. That’s when employees of Eugene Sand & Gravel began bulldozing the site of the $1.3 billion plant, according to The Register-Guard newspaper in Eugene. While numbering only a handful now, construction workers toiling on the Hyundai project eventuallycould number 1,600. That’s a lot of paychecks, and a lot of spending.…