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Interim city manager outlines growth plan and warns sewer debt requires new jobs
Summary
Interim City Manager Greg Nijhoff told Mount Pleasant residents the city and its Economic Development Corporation must work closely to recruit manufacturing jobs and use recent sewer upgrades to attract development; he described project examples, EDC limits under state law and the need to update bylaws.
Greg Nijhoff, interim city manager, told a packed Mount Pleasant Q&A that the city is preparing for imminent growth and needs the Economic Development Corporation and downtown merchants to work together to bring jobs and pay for recent infrastructure investments.
Nijhoff opened a slide presentation describing examples of local development—new restaurants, housing projects and the NXG truck-bodies facility—and said the EDC’s role is to recruit industrial and manufacturing employers while partnering with the city to make sure infrastructure is ready. "EDC as a city partner actually not only helps recruit businesses and bring them into the city, but they also partner with the city to make sure our infrastructure's ready,"…
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