Virginia’s Growth Alliance made an announcement of 110 new jobs<\/a>. The Halifax County IDA is looking to hire an assistant director and a secretary.<\/p>\nI would mention Danville on that scoreboard but with all the Job Busts like GOK, Web Parts, US Green Energy and the White Mill, they’d be sitting at around -1100.<\/p>\n
Jeff Reed is a good economic developer. Halifax County blew it when they got rid of him. The scoreboard in the headline says it all.<\/p>\n
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After looking at that scoreboard, I wonder if the Halifax County IDA is having second thoughts…<\/p>\n
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