Last month, exciting news was announced that Clinton will be home to a relocating manufacturer and DeWitt County's economic development leader says the process to bring them here was nearly all-consuming.

While business typically happens from 8 am to 5 pm, Curt Homann, Executive Director of the DeWitt County Development Council says conversations were had late into the night and interrupted life moments.

According to Homann, a variety of things come in when a business is considering coming to Clinton - not the least of which is the intersections the trucks for the company will have to enter Route 10 from.

The Wallace baseball fields are included with the property purchase to Kwik-Wall and Homann indicates they are being told the company plans to keep those fields intact and even help maintain them going forward.

Having that vacant building find an occupant in the span of just over a year is quite the stroke of good fortune. Homann believes had the former RR Donnelly building sat vacant for even a couple of years, the repairs necessary to it would be been quite difficult to overcome to find a tenant.

While difficult for small communities to attract manufacturing in today's world, Homann calls Kwik-Wall the exact type of company DeWitt County would choose if given the option. 

When it signed the agreement, Kwik-Wall had a 30-day opt-out for any reason but Homann is confident the company will remain committed to its agreement and that there will be tax incentives for them by the major taxing bodies.