KIRKSVILLE, MO -- During Monday’s K-REDI meeting, Director of Job Creation Phil Tate updated members on K-REDI’S involvement with A.T.S.U.’s Missouri Dental School project.
He told KTVO that even though this is non-traditional economic development, this project is the most important opportunity Kirksville has seen in decades.
“It’s not bringing a new factory to town. It’s not the way we normally think of economic development. And yet, when it comes to measurement and economic impact it probably has a greater impact than any project, as I said, we’ve seen for a long time. Job creation, the increase in infrastructure, the payroll. Then you take multiplier effects…it will have an enormous economic impact on Kirksville,” explained Tate.
Tate says since K-REDI is interested in economic activity, they’ve got to be thinking about new kinds of opportunity.
K-REDI and Wi-Fi are back in contact after we reported last month that the Director of Job Creation Phil Tate was unable to make a connection with the owners. Tate says he’s optimistic about their success.
“We have had some contact with Wi-Fi as a result of the press inquiries a month ago. And the report from the folks at Wi-Fi is that they are still hopeful that they will be able to go forward,” says Tate.
Tate says he doesn’t know at this point if Wi-Fi is up to date on their loan payments to the State of Missouri. He said when he last checked ten days ago, they were not current.
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