Mason City Iowa is in the running for an unnamed company to build a 245-million dollar pork processing facility that could eventually create two-thousand jobs. Chad Schreck, executive director of North Iowa Corridor Economic Development Corporation, says there’s still a lot of work to do in moving the process forward, but landing a project like this is the next step for Mason City’s growth and development.
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If Mason City is successful in landing the facility, about 900 to one-thousand workers would be hired in Phase One of the project, with another thousand once Phase Two is complete. Schreck says it’s exciting to have a company want to possibly place up to two-thousand jobs in the community.
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Schreck says he was contacted by officials with the Iowa Economic Development Authority about the project because of the area’s relationship that’s been built with IEDA. He says they only identified a few places where such a facility could work.
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The unnamed company wants to build a modern, environmentally-friendly facility that will enhance the neighborhood it will be in. The facility would have an annual payroll of $44 million with jobs across the economic spectrum. The project would most likely be contingent on the approval of applicable state and local incentives being approved.