Montana Economic Development

Senator’s Financing Program Will Jumpstart 34 New Wind Projects in State

"This is very exciting for Malta," said Phillco Economic Growth Council executive director Anne Boothe.

The funding is part of the Departmentís Community Development Block Grant Program, and will be used to train 53 new Glaxo Smith Kline employees.

Missoula Mayor John Engen and others asked state legislators Wednesday for a shot at a local option sales tax, a bigger slice of state revenues and, surprisingly, a wholesale state effort to purchase the Montana assets of NorthWestern Energy.

"Billings is an area where you can invest money and get return," he said. "We’re working from a position of strength in Billings."

“We made the determination it isn’t feasible for us to pursue gasification in Butte,” said Russ Connole, county economic development director.

The Department of Commerce WIRED program will now also consider assisting manufacturing and energy related businesses in the defined region that create and retain a significant number of jobs, and which conduct business activities and products that are supportive to the development of the bio-product industry in the WIRED region.

Anaconda’s Main Street program is part of a statewide economic revitalization effort that uses preservation as an impetus to revive commercial districts that often have historic assets hidden behind updated facades.

(Largest check ever to be presented to Superintendent of Public Instruction)

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