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u~ t~I.DRC9y ~ i~ ~yt W S^'.~ 4F f ~ .,, 1 v _~ ~' ,,, ~ ~ ~~s~ ~ ;~~ ~~ t -~ Nodh A NEW STARTUP COMPANY, MAHNOMEN BAKED CHIPS, is building a manufacturing plant on six acres within the 80-acre Mahnornen Industrial Park. Located on the White Earth Indian Reservation, the 29,000-square- foot building is slated for completion in December. The $8.5 million facility will produce baked, stackable potato chips, which are a healthier alternative to fried stackable potato chips. The business will initially add 30 new jobs to the area, with plans to employ up to 100 people. The Minnesota Department of Ernployrnent and Economic Development (DEED) helped pay for equipment in the facility with Minnesota Investment Funds. THE IRON RANGE RESOURCES 60ARD APPROVED about $4.7 million in public works infrastructure grants for specific cities, townships and tribes in the Taconite Tax Relief Area. The grants will set the stage for construction projects totaling $82 million, much of it for housing. These projects provide a welcomed boost for the region's residential and commercial builders. Central DEED HAS AWARDED A $1.25 MILLION GRANT TO the city of Willmar to help pay for developing a bioscience research facility at the MinnWest Technology Campus. The funding for the Mid-Central Biosciences Center was awarded under DEED's Bioscience Business Development Public Infrastructure Grant Program. "The bioscience center will contain a research lab that the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota State Colleges and University system will use to assist local bioscience businesses," said DEED Commissioner Dan McElroy. "This facility will play an important role in our efforts to expand the bioscience business sector in Minnesota." The MinnWest Technology Campus is a 34-building, high-tech business incubator on the 100-acre site of a former state hospital in Willmar, about 80 miles west of the Twin Cities in Kandiyohi County. The DEED funding will pay for half of the $2.5 million cost to convert an existing building on the campus into the bioscience center. Other sources will provide $747,000 for initial equipment purchases and $1.9 million for a later phase of equipment purchases. .~ ,~, _;,~~ THE MINNESOTA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS IS BUILDING a~ new campus in Elk River. the 31,000-square-foot facility is scheduled for completion in May 2009. The school plans to offer a wide range of degree and diploma programs at the Elk River campus, including business, information technology and paralegal studies. With an anticipated enrollment of about 900 students, the school will begin recruiting both employees and students soon. The new campus facility will be located near Menards in Elk River. THE 153,600-SQUARE-FOOT GATEWAY BUSINESS CENTER NORTH 1 in Otsego is now 100 percent occupied. The industrial building is leased by two divisions of Otter Tail Corp. - T O. Plastics, Inc., a processor of plastic products, and BTD Manufacturing, a metal fabrication company. Twin Cities Metro ACIST MEDICAL SYSTEMS INC. HAS OPENED its expanded headquarters in Eden Prairie. The developer of injection systems for improving the quality of medical ~~~; ~Y~~= ~~: _o ~"' LL Z ..~.