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Cannon Falls and Lakefield were awarded a total of $448,000 in Minnesota development grants Monday to spur employment and aid business expansions.
The grants, issued by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), included $250,000 for Cannon Falls to improve infrastructure in the industrial park where Benchmark AG plans to erect a processing plant that makes soybean-based animal feed. The facility is eventually to employ 16 workers.
Lakefield got $198,000 to fix a water-pressure problem inside the existing Hussong Manufacturing building and to buy a fire sprinkler system for the building's $1 million expansion. The company, which builds Kozy Heat gas, electric and corn-burning fireplaces, plans to hire 10 new workers.
The money came from a DEED program that pays up to 50 percent of the capital costs of various infrastructure projects that create jobs. The state awarded $4.6 million in such grants last year.
Dee DePass • 612-673-7725
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