More than $9 million in state funding is being awarded for infrastructure improvements across Ohio, with Allen County receiving $2 million for road upgrades tied to economic development.
Construction on the first roundabout connected to the Google data center project has been delayed following public feedback and ongoing discussions with impacted landowners and utility companies. Officials hope to have the project back on schedule by the end of June.
Economic development is a complicated process that has many ways to assist businesses looking to grow. Friday, Allen County Commissioners, the Allen Economic Development Group, the Port Authority of Allen County, the county engineer, and the Ohio Department of Transportation representatives met to discuss road infrastructure. It was related to Procter & Gamble's $500,000,000 expansion of a new scent bead plant. The Allen Economic Development Group and others have worked to obtain federal and grant dollars to fund a portion of a roundabout on Thayer Road for Procter & Gamble's truck entrance.