Communities in South Central and Southwest Minnesota have embraced means and modes of the present in hopes of positioning their humble abodes towards a chic and tech-forward future. In Wilmar, the MinnWest Technology Campus has spawned an epicenter of industry with 31 businesses grounded in bioscience, agriculture and technology that employ 550 rural Minnesotans. Among ...
Dawn Espe, development planner for the Region 5 Development Commission in Staples, talks about a grant they have just received for an ambitious community-building project centered in Little Falls.
Jessica Looman, deputy commissioner of the MN Dept. of Labor and Industry, tells us about apprenticeships as a (paid) path to careers for young people. Part 1.
Each year, the Center assembles the latest demographic and economic data to create the State of Rural Minnesota report. Most of the data used for the presentation can also be found at our Atlas of Minnesota Online. Click here to see the State of Rural Minnesota presentation. — Updated November 2016