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Kenosha Area Business Alliance touts Lilly investment, urges housing and workforce action
Summary
Nicole Riff, president of the Kenosha Area Business Alliance, told the Kenosha County Board that recent corporate relocations and expansions — including Eli Lilly’s multibillion-dollar investment — present a generational opportunity but also raise urgent housing and workforce challenges.
Nicole Riff, president of the Kenosha Area Business Alliance, told the Kenosha County Board of Supervisors that the county is seeing significant corporate attraction and expansion, and that those gains are intensifying pressure on housing and local workforce development.
"Eli Lilly is planning to have at least 750 employees, and they're investing almost $4,000,000,000 in Kenosha County," Riff said, citing the company as a potential anchor for a new pharmaceutical cluster. She listed other recent wins and expansions — Smurfit/WestRock, Concept Labs and Balkan Plastics — and said the alliance used the county's high-impact fund to recruit or retain four companies in the last two years.
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