Top 10 Workplaces in Iowa: Cambridge

Sam Busch — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 05:00:00 +0100

The Fairfield Economic Development Association (FEDA) announced at its 2010 Annual Meeting a strategic partnership with the Cedar Rapids-based Entrepreneurial Development Center, Inc. (EDC) called Project Grow Our Own. At the annual meeting Curt Nelson, President & CEO of EDC and FEDA Executive Director Brent Willett were on hand to make the joint program announcement. The new program provides professional support and mentoring services...

Kuiken named to FEDA Board and Foss retires

Sam Busch — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:33:52 +0100

Tim Kuiken, attorney/shareholder at Foss, Kuiken, Gookin & Cochran P.C. in Fairfield, has been elected to serve as a director on the Fairfield Economic Development Association’s Board of Directors. Kuiken’s nomination was affirmed by the FEDA membership at its 2010 Annual Meeting last night in Fairfield. He will assume a 3-year directorship commencing January 1, 2011.

Kuiken will assume the seat of Craig Foss, also of Foss, Kuiken, Gookin & Cochran...

FEDA 2010 Existing Business Initiative Report to the Community Released

Sam Busch — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 05:00:00 +0100

FEDA has released a report summarizing the findings of the latest Fairfield Existing Business Initiative [FEBI], a committee-led outreach campaign of executive interviews and surveying of dozens of Fairfield employers, to the community. This report is the second iteration of the FEBI program, which was launched in 2008 in an effort by FEDA to better connect with existing Fairfield-area businesses, comes at a critical time for the community.

FEDA Quarterly 2Q 2010 Now Available

Sam Busch — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:43:55 +0100

The 2Q 2010 edition FEDA Quarterly was released on August 3rd. The newsletter includes articles on incentives for a hotel development project, FEDA entrepreneurial development program, updated 2010-11 Fairfield Community Quick Reference, Google Places and much more.

Click here to read newsletter.

Just Released - 2010 Fairfield Community Quick Reference

Sam Busch — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:00:00 +0100

The recently updated 2010 Fairfield Community Quick Reference (CQR) was released on August 3rd. The CQR includes information on Fairfield's Community & Culture, Recreation Facilities, Transportation, Education, Taxes & Incentives, Demographics and Local Government.

Click here to view and download your copy.

Read the media release here.

NEW Fairfield Downtown Square Online Map

Sam Busch — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:45:33 +0100

The Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce has released a new online map with Chambers members located on the downtown square. The online map is an interactive tool to help orient community visitors to downtown Chamber member businesses.

You'll find contact and product description information as well as operating hours and street views for each Chamber member business listed when available. This is just another great example of why Chamber membership pays!

Not located on the squar...

Introducing Google Places

Sam Busch — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:19:04 +0100

If you're a local business owner and you want to take control of the information Google has or doesn't have listed about your business on Google Search and Google Maps, then Google Places can help you do just that. For simple and easy help getting started with Google Places and other useful tips click here.

Google Places provides business owners with powerful yet eas...

Available Building Profile - 237,000 sf. in Fairfield

Sam Busch — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:14:40 +0100

Located at 1801 West Stone Ave, Fairfield, IA 52556 is and available for sale 237,000 sf. industrial facility that's 100% leased on a 27 acres lot. The building has 20,000 sf. of office space with ample parking and an outside yard. The listing brochure is available here.

Other facility features include:
• 99% sprinklered (wet)
• 16'-25'clear ceiling height
• Column spacing: 30' x 49'
• 5 dock-high and 7 grade-level doors
• Tilt-up c...

Agri-Industrial Plastics Company receives state expansion incentives

Sam Busch — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:00:00 +0100

Portions excerpted from an article appearing in the Fairfield Ledger.

Agri-Industrial Plastics Company has been awarded $36,000 and tax benefits to help expand, create and retain jobs. The award was approved by the Iowa Department of Economic Development Board and will create in Fairfield, five new jobs and retain seven jobs. The tax benefits were made from the Enterprise Zone program. A resolution supporting Agri-Industrial Plastics’ Enterprise Zone Application was approved in Februa...

Fairfield businesses accessing low-interest loan program

Sam Busch — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:00:00 +0100

Eleven businesses in Jefferson County have accessed the Regional Economic Development Investments, Inc. revolving loan fund since its 1991 inception, far outpacing all other counties in the ten-county Area XV performance region in dollars accessed, other investment and jobs created, the Fairfield Economic Development Association said Friday. Since the revolving fund’s inception, Jefferson County businesses have accessed $1,196,200 in low-interest loan funds, matching it...

Let's Order Online, Inc Awarded Incentives to Grow

Sam Busch — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Fairfield-based software technology company Let's Order Online, Inc. has been awarded $200,000 in regional and state incentives to help grow its workforce by at least 10 employees over the next 36 months. Let's Order Online markets a proprietary online customer service and ordering software package to restaurants across the country.

The Let's Order Online incentive package includes $125,000 in funding from the Entrepreneurial Ventures Assistance [EVA] program administered by the Iowa De...

Agri-Industrial Plastics Company Expands Production Capacity

Sam Busch — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Agri-Industrial Plastics Company (AIP) will be accepting another 6-layer fuel tank machine in early August to compliment their current machine, doubling the production capacity of fuel tanks for ATV, snowmobile, watercraft, golf cart, lawn & garden and the small to medium sized engine market.

AIP began manufacturing non automotive multilayer fuel tanks in 2005 to meet the more stringent permeation requirements enforced by the EPA in the United States. Since going down this path, the...

Mayor Malloy, Brent Willett letter to the editor on road construction

Sam Busch — Thu, 21 May 2009 05:00:00 +0100

This letter to the editor appeared in the May 21, 2009 edition of the Fairfield Ledger.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

BUSINESS 34 IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS

We write during a time of transition. The summer we have been awaiting is finally here - the Highway 34 resurfacing project. Just weeks from now, Fairfield will emerge from a transition which first began nearly twenty years ago. At that time, efforts had just begun to convert what is now the Heartland Highway from...

Small Towns, Big Ideas Report Released

Sam Busch — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Small Towns, Big Ideas is the result of an intensive, yearlong effort to identify and document the stories of small towns that are surviving -- and, in some cases, thriving -- as hubs of civic and economic activity. The Small Towns, Big Ideas project began in mid-2006, when the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Government partnered with the North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center to identify small towns that were implementing successful...

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