IEDC Given More Tax Dollars To Purchase More Boone Land

The State Budget Committee approved nearly $100 million more for the Indiana Economic Development Corporation’s controversial LEAP district in Lebanon. Some of that money will go toward securing about 1,400 more acres of land for the project. The new money had previously been earmarked for the IEDC to lure an advanced manufacturing company to the state. But that project is stalled, prompting the shift to the LEAP district in Boone County.