Chris Thompson · Global Wooster, Global Northeast Ohio

September 7th, 2008

A few months back Tom Breckenridge at the PD wrote a story about efforts to make Northeast Ohio more attractive to immigrants. The people down in Wooster were paying attention and last week the Wooster Growth Corp. voted to spend $50,000 to apply for the EB-5 program with the Cleveland Council on World Affairs. Wooster Growth hopes to attract foreign investors for a planned $7.5 million building in its bioag business park being developed near the Ohio Agricultural Research & Development Center (one of the region’s world-class assets). I’ve written a little more about it here and you can read the Wooster Daily Record story here. Kudos to Breckenridge for highlighting the need, and kudos to Wooster for being willing to pick up the ball and run with it. It will likely be more than a year before any of this produces a building and jobs, but it’s great to see organizations willing to take the risk necessary to get it started.

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