Over the last 20 months, Toledo’s Regional Growth Partnership (RGP) “has done a stellar job of fulfilling its mission” to bring jobs and investment to northwest Ohio, The Toledo Blade reports. The agency’s goals for 2014 were to attract 55 projects that would create 2,200 jobs and bring $1.5 billion in capital investment to the area; it ended the year with 76 projects, 3,569 jobs, and $1.87 billion in investment, according to the article. Over the first eight months of 2015, the group has seen 28 projects, 1,355 jobs and $1.1 billion come in. The Texas-based McLane Co.’s new Findlay distribution warehouse is “the prime example of the economic development agency’s efforts to court project site selectors to generate project leads,” Dean Monske, RGP president and chief executive officer said in the article. The agency identified top site selection consultants and began visiting them; one of those consultants came for a visit and then called RGP a couple months later about the McLane project. For more, read the full article.
Toledo development agency exceeding goals for new jobs and investments
