Efforts to seal the deal on a proposed dairy facility development are
underway—a development that could bring nearly 160 jobs to West
Michigan. If the deal goes through, a hulking and vacant former Delphi
factory could find new life as a powdered milk manufacturing plant.
According to excerpts from the story:
COOPERSVILLE -- A northwest Indiana
dairy marketing cooperative is considering building a $103.2 million
powdered milk processing facility in the plant left vacant by Delphi
Corp. Continental Dairy Products Inc. was to seek
employment tax credits today from the Michigan Economic Growth
Authority board for as many as 70 jobs in the new plant. The Fair Oaks,
Ind., company also is considering sites in northeast Indiana's Steuben
County and northwest Ohio's Williams County, according to Michigan
Economic Development Corp. officials.
"The city, the Michigan
Economic Development Corp. and Ottawa County Economic Development have
been involved with Continental for months on economic development
incentives," Coopersville City Manager Steve Patrick said Monday.
"We've been working really hard with them to make something work. "I
don't know if it will work."
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