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EDC director outlines business park option, workforce needs and recovery successes
Summary
The EDC director presented a semiannual report highlighting strategic engagement, a proposed 90-plus-acre business park option under due diligence, a project that currently employs about 169 people with roughly $18.5 million in capital investment, and ongoing workforce and childcare challenges that affect recruitment.
Fields Leibel, introduced as the Economic Development Commission (EDC) director, presented the EDC's semiannual report to the Mitchell County Board of Commissioners, highlighting business recruitment, workforce development, partner engagement and plans for a certified industrial site.
Leibel said the EDC is pursuing due diligence on an option for more than 90 acres from a private owner as a possible business park, and that consultants have been retained to pursue…
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