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Conexus Manufacturing Readiness Grant (MRG) helps advance strategic equipment purchase to move 100-year-old facility toward Industry 4.0. VINCENNES – A $2.5 million investment by Wabash Steel, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lenex Steel, will elevate both productivity and workforce capacity at its facility here, allowing the company to capitalize on a new IoT-driven high-tech blaster [...]

More than 5,000 family members, coaches, 10-year-old players from across America and international areas expected to take part in the August 7-16 competition in 2025. VINCENNES – Top youth baseball players will take the field here next year in the 2025 Cal Ripken 10-Year-Old World Series, one of the largest youth sporting events in America. [...]

Little Alice Learning Center in Vincennes - Photo courtesy of Vincennes Sun-Commercial With a ribbon-cutting in August, the Little Alice Learning Center in Vincennes advanced available child care services for Knox County. “This new development helps address important needs for our workforce,” said Chris Pfaff, CEO of Knox County Indiana Economic Development. “We are grateful to [...]

By Chris Pfaff, CEO Knox County Indiana Economic Development   Indiana is on an innovation roll. Reflecting a new dynamic of entrepreneurial expansion, Gov. Eric Holcomb and Elevate Ventures recently announced the creation of a new $100 million growth fund, a powerful addition to Indiana’s expanding innovation arsenal.  A key question: where do the one-third of [...]

VINCENNES - The news of a $1.4 billion expansion for an all-new battery electric vehicle to be built at the Toyota Indiana facility in Gibson County was well-received by Knox County Indiana Economic Development (KCIED). “This is excellent news for Princeton and the southwest Indiana region that includes Knox County,” said Chris Pfaff, KCIED CEO, [...]

The “once-in-a-lifetime eclipse event” in Knox County attracted more than an estimated 50,000 people and was a “huge success,” according to Jamie Neal, President of the Knox County Chamber of Commerce. Despite cloudy and rainy skies for the first part of the extended weekend event, the forecast of clear skies on Monday, April 8 diverted [...]

This column previously appeared on Inside Indiana Business April 9, 2024 The Site Selection magazine headline recently summed it up: “When Being Small Is a Big Advantage.” Over the past four or so years, rural America has experienced an unexpected and remarkable growth trend. As the magazine noted, “record inflation, remote working, rising big-city [...]

Reprinted with permission from the Vincennes Sun-Commercial newspaper March 28, 2024 SOUTHERN INDIANA —  Indiana First Region's READI 2.0 application was submitted to the state Feb. 16. The Indiana First Region, which includes Harrison, Knox, Perry, Pike and Spencer counties, have capitalized on the first round of READI funding by leveraging its $15 million grant to [...]

Opportunity Knox lead story – Looking for a great place to work, live, and play? With multiple thousands of visitors on deck, the upcoming total eclipse in Vincennes offers a unique opportunity for visitors and expatriates to sample the quality of life and economic development prospects, according to Sara Wolfe, director of the Dark Side [...]

By Chris Pfaff, CEO of Knox County Economic Development (The following column previously appeared on Inside Indiana Business) Last fall, Knox County officials and I joined Gov. Eric Holcomb and the Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC) for a week-long trade mission in Japan.  Some may ask, why are focused visits like these vital to Indiana [...]