Miles Sebold gave an overview of the Hutchinson Economic Development Authority’s (EDA) mission — to facilitate redevelopment, job creation and manufacturing success — and detailed a series of projects the EDA has supported over the past two decades.

He described the State Theater rehabilitation (work beginning in the early 2000s) supported by a redevelopment TIF and a downtown loan of about $130,000 that enabled private owners Red and Linda McMonagle to renovate and operate the venue; new operators Jenna and Jason Wall took over in 2024. Sebold also credited the EDA with Cornerstone Commons (circa 2005), downtown streetscape improvements, and the cleanup and site-readiness work at the former Hutchinson Coop Cenex fertilizer site on 3rd Avenue NW.

On the Old Depot Block, Sebold said the EDA coordinated with the McLeod County Rail Authority to relocate and renovate the depot building, spent funds on a market pavilion and worked with the city on parking and a rain garden that together produced the current farmers market.

Sebold highlighted industrial recruitment and incubator efforts: Warrior Manufacturing relocated from Redwood Falls and built a 92,000-square-foot facility (later expanded by about 40,000 square feet) with job growth from an initial 15-job goal to more than 100 employees; the city and EDA expanded the industrial park using a federal infrastructure grant (about $950,000 as stated in the transcript) to install roads and utilities for 68 acres of new lots.

He reviewed the Hutchinson Enterprise Center, a 20,000-square-foot incubator built at an overall cost of about $2,400,000. Sebold said the project was financed largely through grants, including a state grant he identified as roughly $760,000 and about $1,000,000 in other grants; he stated the facility was built without debt. He listed incubator-tenant success stories (Innovative Foam, RD Machine, Laser Dynamics, Smoky Dukes and Demos Materials) and said the Enterprise Center is fully occupied.

Recruitment highlights included Uponor (now owned by GF) — where workforce planning through a program Sebold called "Tiger Path" helped secure expansion — Zephyr Wind Services (acquired a 51,000-square-foot facility and grew to multiple sites), and RD Machine’s expansion from roughly 16,000 to 37,000 square feet and about 35 employees.

Sebold characterized the Enterprise Center as distinct among Minnesota cities for its approach and said the EDA has played an integral role across these projects. The transcript contains approximate figures and program names as Sebold presented them; some claims (for example, that the enterprise center is "unique in Minnesota") are attributed to Sebold and are not independently verified in the transcript.