U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said the EDA awarded $4 million to Wabash County in grants to help expand the Heartland Career Center. 

“The Trump Administration is committed to training workers in the critical skills America’s growing healthcare and advanced manufacturing industries need,” Ross said in an EDA press release. “This new facility will be a hub for adult education in the Wabash County region, and the project’s location near an Opportunity Zone will drive private investment to the community.”

The funding will help private investment in the area and promote economic development. 

“This EDA grant will construct the Heartland Career Center Workforce Development Center in a community hit hard by flooding in spring 2018,” Dana Gartzke, Performing the Delegated Duties of the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development, said in the EDA press release. “The center will provide skilled employees local businesses demand and the project’s location near an Opportunity Zone will help to spur additional investment to diversify the local economy.”