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Article: Top business news: Eastern Indiana update. (Regional Report East)
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- Indiana Business Magazine
- Article date:
- March 1, 1994
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New signs of economic stability and small signs of a slow turnaround have officials in eight eastern counties--Delaware, Madison, Wayne, Grant, Blackford, Jay, Randolph and Henry--more chipper than many have been in years.
"We've been struggling for the last few years," says Carol Pugh, executive director of the Blackford County Economic Development Corp. "But things are starting to improve now."
Her county, one of Indiana's smallest with a population of 14,000, is smiling over the sale of a building the economic-development corporation built in 1989 as a way to attract a new industry.
The move paid off in '93. In June, Key Plastics bought the ...