Article: Richmond.(Indiana manufacturing center)

Richmond used to identify itself as the "City of Roses," until the bloom began to fade from its once vast greenhouse floral industry. Today, a more accurate, if less glamorous, sobriquet might be "City of Machine Tool Manufacturing" (the town contains a dozen such companies) or "City of Plastics" (four plants), or "Community of Colleges" (six institutions of higher learning).

A more genuine description might be "City of Partnerships." It's a word that pops up frequently in conversations with the town's economic, political and educational leaders.

Jim Hizer, president and CEO of the local economic-development corporation, talks about the "partnership" of ...

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