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The Missouri Department of Economic Development (DED) awarded $336,559 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) grant funds in March 2020 for a drainage and street repair project.
Tooling Tech Group (TTG), the second largest tooling provider in the United States, has announced an investment of $4.5 million to expand their Washington operations by 21,000 square ft. The business currently operates out of 114,000 sq. ft. at 2 locations, Town & Country Industrial Park and 431 W-W Industrial Park where the expansion is underway.
Missouri’s smoothed seasonally adjusted unemployment rate had its largest monthly and yearly increases ever in April 2020. The April 2020 rate of 9.7 percent was up by nearly six percentage points from the March 2020 rate of 3.9 percent and 6.5 percentage points from the April 2019 rate of 3.2 percent.
The Missouri Department of Economic Development announced today that it will receive $13.6 million in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds from the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) to support Missouri’s COVID-19 response efforts.