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Downtown's five step process for commercial renovation

With the current momentum in downtown Tiffin, we are enjoying a number of renovation projects. The following process has been set up to make renovating a commercial or mixed-use structure as easy as…

NOW Railway moves more than 2600 carloads a year

[caption id="attachment_1972" align="alignright" width="300"] Alan Thiem and Billie Johnson from Omnitrax[/caption] There is a lot of freight rail in Seneca County. CSXT and Norfolk Southern have…

Tiffin University has invested $30M since 2000

Last year, Tiffin University celebrated its 125th anniversary. One of the premier Division II universities nationally, Tiffin University now boasts an enrollment of more than xxx students. The school…

The INSIGHT Program: Part 2 - the difference

How is INSIGHT similar to most approaches? INSIGHT seeks, like all Business Retention & Expansion programs to work with a collaborative group of resource partners to connect with businesses in…

The INSIGHT Program: Part 5 - the team

The INSIGHT Team will consist of people working for local public sector and nonprofit  who spend time either directly or indirectly providing programs, incentives, resources, and assistance to Seneca…

The INSIGHT Program: Part 4 - the questions

Like the HITS approach before it, each letter of the word INSIGHT is the first letter of a key question term (i.e., with HITS it was "Hiring," "Investing," "Training," and "Space."). The Fairfield…

The INSIGHT Program: Part 3 - the precursors

The INSIGHT approach to business retention and expansion, like other approaches, has at its center a series of questions to ask of a business. The INSIGHT approach is an evolution of the Fairfield…

The INSIGHT Program: Part 1 - the purpose

The Seneca Industrial and Economic Development Corporation (SIEDC) is getting ready to work with a variety of key collaborators to launch its INSIGHT Retention & Expansion Program for Seneca…

Notes - Workforce

1. Identify the needs of business - we needed to come up with a system to better coordinate and look forward to what businesses need now and in future. Sat downt w gwb and obr...how can we do this.…