Today at noon in Iola, a gathering of 16 community and business leaders from southeast Kansas will start brainstorming about how to make the state’s poorest region more prosperous. The Iola Register reports: The gathering is the first meeting for the steering committee, created after the Nov. 17 economic summit in Iola, and is made …
KAKE News is reporting that incentives of Oklahoma City and San Antonio helped lure Boeing away from Wichita: Often Wichtia’s biggest competitors for local jobs are not from other countries; they’re other states and cities. They want Wichita’s aerospace jobs and are finding ways to attract them. … Boeing learned what incentives Oklahoma has. “The …
Boeing just announced that it is moving all work from its Wichita facilities to other sites, including Washington state. Various twitter accounts are reporting that some relocations will be to Oklahoma City and San Antonio. A Boeing transition center will be established – some employees will be offered relocation, but not everyone will have that …
Attracting and keeping doctors in rural Kansas communities can be a challenge. The hospital in Ashland (southwest Kansas) has devised an unorthodox method of luring employees to the area. … [o]fficials at the Ashland Health Center, seeking to reverse the drain of talent symptomatic of what happens across rural America, embraced an unorthodox approach to …
The Kansas Department of Commerce just announced that Newell Rubbermaid is moving 200 jobs from a Texas facility to Winfield. The company will also invest $26.6 million to expand its operations in the community. Rubbermaid set to expand facility with major investment in Winfield State and local officials welcomed news today that Newell Rubbermaid will …
New Directions Behavioral Health plans to relocate its headquarters from Leawood to Kansas City, Missouri – – along with 170 jobs with an average salary of $73,000: The firm plans to locate in an office building at 8140 Ward Parkway. That building also was chosen by Applebee’s International as its headquarters in May when it …
My grandparents moved to Wichita from southeast Kansas years ago, to seek employment at Boeing. Many of my family members have worked for Boeing, and my father, after having worked at Boeing for over 20 years, now works at Spirit AeroSystems. Lately, the talk of Boeing leaving Wichita has left people upset. It’s been such …
Communities around the state are discussing incentives … to entice either businesses, or new residential construction, or both. Wellington plans to look at business incentives in the near future. According to the Wellington News: Several cities around the state have been able to lure businesses in by giving cash incentives for setting up shop in …
Cities all over Kansas are rolling out incentives to draw developers and new residents. (We’ve already mentioned incentives in Maize and Rose Hill, as well as others.) New construction stimulates the economy by providing construction jobs, and fees and taxes increase revenue for cities. In Garden City, officials are proposing a flat fee for utility …
We wrote several months ago about the Garden City Area Chamber of Commerce spending $75,000 to rebrand the southwest Kansas community. On the other extreme, the City of Garnett has the great idea of using a KU professor and his class to develop a logo and tagline. Yesterday, the City of Garnett posted to its …
Riley and Finney counties were among the top 50 rural U.S. counties who saw job gains in the last year. This was according to new numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Of course, most job growth can be found in metro counties across the country, but urban and rural job growth overall have been …
Manhattan Regional Airport’s daily commercial flights are helping local companies like Steel and Pipe Supply, grow their business in a down economy. In just two years of commercial flights by carrier American Eagle, ridership has doubled from 25,074 in 2009 to more than 50,000 this year. To help make this happen, the City of Manhattan …
Who would’ve guessed that a young town like Lawrence would be trying to attract retirees? But that seems to be the case, as the Douglas County Retiree Attraction Task Force is encouraging officials in Lawrence and Douglas County to start looking at the possibility of more retirees moving to the area, and the affect they …
I’ve done a decent amount of shopping in Salina, so I’m not all that surprised at this story. However, what is a little surprising is how many more shoppers outside of Salina have been flocking to the city to do business. They are becoming more of a regional center retail-wise, which is fantastic news to …
The City of Hutchinson is aggressively pursuing ways to stabilize and improve the city’s housing stock. They are in the process of hiring an individual to work as the housing program manager, and Planning and Development Director Nancy Scott has been searching for funds to dedicate to other strategies in addressing the housing problem. Scott …