(Spirit Lake)– A change is coming in 2023 to a program administered by the Iowa Lakes Corridor Development Corporation that’s part of a statewide initiative. Corridor CEO Shannon Landauer says a significant change is coming to the state’s “Best of Iowa” program…
“The software company that we had been using will no longer exist so we had to do about a 15 year data pull and try to get all of our information for consistency and so we will have a new software purchase, again, for that new expense. What we don’t know, though, is what that’s going to look like. We don’t know what software platform that’s going to be.”
Landauer says it’s important the Corridor continue the program as in the past so they can continue to build a data base…
“Working with those same fields and elements so we have consistent data that can kind of bridge that gap. And again as we talked about the expansion of existing industry visits, it’s not just all about the large employers and the large investors within the region. There’s a lot of small, light industry with great potential for growth, and a lot of our growth comes from those smaller industries that start here and then they grow and they find new ways to be investing as well.”
Landauer presented the information as part of an update at Tuesday’s Dickinson County Board of Supervisors meeting.
