Handful of economic development projects has local economy looking stronger in the last several years

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The local economy has seen significant improvement for not only 2010, but 2008 and 2009 as well.

During the year just ended, Huntington County saw five new industrial development projects, with a capital investment of over $32 million in Huntington County, notes Mark Wickersham, executive director of Huntington County United Economic Development - the agency charged with attracting new economic development to the county.

That brings the total number of new economic projects over the past three years to 24, projects that will add more than 1,000 new jobs once they're all fully up and running.

"Obviously, we're not in a full recovery, but things are definitely improving," Wickersham says.

Those 24 new economic development projects include seven projects that have used vacant industrial buildings, totaling 1,315,000 square feet of "backfilled" industrial space....