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City, state ride investment momentum
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State support helps downtown apartment project develop
As he did March 23 for the Blue Buffalo plant expansion groundbreaking, Gov. Eric Holcomb visits Richmond and Wayne County for celebrations. Whether ground-breaking or ribbon-cutting ceremonies, investments by new or expanding companies providing new jobs are celebrated. Thursday morning at Blue Buffalo and later during an Indiana Economic Development Corporation board meeting at Ivy Tech Community College Richmond, the city and state celebrated a successful first quarter of 2023 attracting new investments. Locally, investments totaling $378 million dollars have been announced in the Midwest Industrial Park by Viking Group, Liberation Laboratories and Blue Buffalo. Those would add more than 200 new jobs.