Relocation company SIRVA will make Fort Wayne its moving services headquarters, creating 240 new jobs by 2011.
A key attraction for the company moving that headquarters from Illinois to Fort Wayne is the 288,000-square-foot regional business-support center it occupies at Kroemer Road and U.S. 30. According to the Indiana Economic Development Corp., SIRVA will invest more than $16 million to centralize more of its operations here.
Gov. Mitch Daniels was in Fort Wayne this morning, along with many of the company's executives, to announce the relocation of the moving services headquarters.
“SIRVA's decision on the move means hundreds of jobs, but it's also a vote of confidence in our state's competitive business environment and in the more than 450 Hoosiers already working for the company in Fort Wayne,” Daniels said in a statement from the IEDC.
SIRVA will begin hiring business staff in 2009 after the completion of initial improvements to the Indiana facility.
The IEDC offered SIRVA up to $2.4 million in incentives, based on the company's job creation and retention plans. The city of Fort Wayne will consider property tax abatement and agreed to provide SIRVA with grants totaling up to $366,000 over the next three years and up to $634,000 in tax increment financing at the request of the Fort Wayne-Allen County Economic Development Alliance.
WorkOne Northeast will help the company recruit, screen and train new and incumbent workers as part of the expansion.
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