New business formations have reached historic levels nationally, and the communities that will benefit most are the ones actively building the conditions for entrepreneurship to take root. In Grant County, that ecosystem is forming.

Walk the floor of nearly any manufacturing plant in Grant County and you will hear some version of the same conversation: the work is there, the wages are competitive, and the company would hire more people tomorrow if it could find them. That is not a recruitment problem. It is a pipeline problem, and pipeline problems are economic development.