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IHCC Business Incubator on track for success
Posted: 12.13.2012 at 5:08 PM
Tess Hedrick

Tess Hedrick is a Multimedia Journalist for KTVO.

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OTTUMWA, IOWA -- It was a little more than two months ago when Indian Hills Community College received a $750,000 federal grant for a new business incubator. And it has had full congressional support from Congressman Dave Loebsack from the very beginning.

The business incubator would be located on the currently empty piece of land out at IHCC’s North Campus.

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A lot of headway has been made since the grant has been received.

“Right now we're in the planning stages for the building itself. I'm meeting with the architect actually just after Christmas to finalize floor plans and we hope to put that out for bid in the very early spring and break ground by mid-march and have the building completed by the fall,” said Jim Lindenmayer, IHCC President.

The goal of the business incubator is to spur business startups and provide more or less a support system for those entrepreneurs.

Lindenmayer said he hopes to open the incubator’s doors in the fall.

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