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Growing Grant County, Economic Development 101, Community & Place
main street, Downtown Revitalization, indiana main street, OCRA, Historic Preservation, placemaking, quality of place, CHARM grant, downtown affliate network, economic development
The Storefront Test: What Main Street Strategy Measures
Growing Grant County, Economic Development 101, Community & Place
main street, Downtown Revitalization, indiana main street, OCRA, Historic Preservation, placemaking, quality of place, CHARM grant, downtown affliate network, economic development

Grant County has three Indiana Main Street organizations. Part of our Growing Grant County series on what the Main Street model measures, what those numbers conceal, and why Fairmount sits a full tier ahead of the the others.

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Growing Grant County, Economic Development 101, Community & Place
main street, Downtown Revitalization, indiana main street, OCRA, Historic Preservation, placemaking, quality of place, CHARM grant, downtown affliate network, economic development
Growing Grant County, Economic Development 101
business attraction, site selection, target industries, advanced manufacturing, I-69, business retention and expansion, workforce data, duke energy
Marketing & Attraction: How We Tell Grant County’s Story and Who Needs to Hear It
Growing Grant County, Economic Development 101
business attraction, site selection, target industries, advanced manufacturing, I-69, business retention and expansion, workforce data, duke energy

Say "marketing" and most people picture billboards and slogans. In economic development, it's matchmaking. It’s finding companies whose needs fit what a place already has, and giving them an honest reason to look. Part of our Growing Grant County series on targeting, positioning, ethical lead generation and the two numbers that matter.

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Growing Grant County, Economic Development 101
business attraction, site selection, target industries, advanced manufacturing, I-69, business retention and expansion, workforce data, duke energy
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The Plate, the Cabinet, and the Cake

Three Grant County factory floors, three unrelated products, and one shared constraint. A Business Retention and Expansion visit to Huhtamaki, American Woodmark, and Cafe Valley finds all three limited not by orders or equipment, but by people, and each answering that constraint in its own way.

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Workforce as Economic Development: Career Pathways, Sector Partnerships, and WIOA Basics

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.

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