Dodge City KS – On Thursday, June 11, 2020, National Beef donated $50,000 to the Dodge City/Ford County Development Corporation to grant out to local businesses who are struggling due to COVID-19 and $9,000 to the Community Housing Association of Dodge City for the Paint Dodge program.
Read MoreThe Dodge City Farmer’s Market will begin its season on Saturday, June 6th at its new location, along front-street between 1st & 2nd Avenue. They will be open every Saturday from 7 am – 12 pm. The new location allows the farmers to expand into Eisenhower Park to accommodate new vendors. The Dodge City Farmer’s Market offers produce and products that are made, baked, and grown locally.
Read MoreThe Community Housing Association of Dodge City (CHAD) is excited to continue the Paint Dodge program for 2020. Paint Dodge provides paint and supplies to qualifying homeowners who live in Ford County. Since its creation in 2017, Paint Dodge has successfully painted eighteen homes and has two more in the pipeline to be completed this spring. Paint Dodge is currently accepting applications.
Read MoreCamp Destination Innovation partnered with Network Kansas for the first-ever Kansas Youth Virtual Entrepreneurship Challenge, an event designed to engage currently quarantined youth and spark innovation and creativity for a chance to win cash prizes and the youth of Kansas showed up.
Read MoreThe need for Kansas counties and local communities to create new resources to assist small businesses has never been greater than during the midst of this world wide crisis. Overnight, small businesses in every community have encountered situations they’ve never dealt with before.
Read MoreFord County residents and business owners discuss the impact that the Wind Energy Industry has had on their lives and their communities.
Read MoreNor-Am Cold Storage is a family owned cold storage facility that is based out of Le Mars, Iowa. They currently have 5 facilities, with one Kansas location in Elwood, KS. Their Dodge City facility will be a $35 Million investment in our community. The 148,000 sf facility will employ up to 90 employees in the first 3 years of operation.
Read MoreSutherlands had their official Grand Opening in Dodge City on Sunday, October 12th, 2019 at their new location at 1510 Soule St. in the Star Bond Power District. Construction of the 75,000 sf building with an additional 35,000 sf garden center began in mid 2018. Sutherlands is a complete home improvement and hardware store.
Read MoreThe U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recognized 30 clean water infrastructure projects for excellence and innovation within the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) program. Honored projects include large wastewater infrastructure projects to small decentralized and agriculture projects.
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Treasury has officially certified Governor Jeff Colyer’s nomination of 74 census tracts to be designated as Qualified Opportunity Zones and has designated those tracts as such. The approved Opportunity Zones, a new economic development tool enacted by the Federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, will offer local citizens the opportunity to invest back into their communities and proactively be a part of the solution to problems such as population decline, lack of jobs, and crumbling infrastructure.
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