Incentives Approved for Indiana Furniture Expansion
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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowJasper-based Indiana Furniture is getting some help with its $17 million expansion. Our partners at WEHT-TV report the Jasper City Council has approved a nine-year tax abatement for the project, which involves the construction of a new production facility on the city’s south side.
Plans for the project were first detailed last month. Indiana Furniture Vice President of Sales & Marketing Mike Blessinger tells WEHT the new facility will make operations more efficient.
The project is only expected to create a small number of jobs. However, Blessinger says the company is currently looking to add about 20 workers as it has dealt with staffing issues due to the pandemic.
“There’s a real problem all over the country, but especially in Dubois County for an employee shortage and a company our size, we are competing against all the other manufacturers and all the other places that have manufacturing jobs in Jasper,” said Blessinger. “So our goal here with some of our expansion and improved efficiencies is to not have so many open positions where they can’t fill them.”
Construction on the facility will take place in phases and is expected to be complete in 2023. The company tells WEHT it will eventually sell its current facility on Mill Street, in which it has operated since 1905, to be repurposed.