The Bruising Battle Abroad

Mitsubishi's Coilplus subsidiary, a manufacturer of precision steel products, didn't just plop down its new $16 million plant in Will County, ^ Ill., three years ago by chance. The county, 35 miles south of Chicago, prevailed in an intense 15-month bidding contest against 20 other sites in Illinois and neighboring Iowa, Indiana and Wisconsin. Will County won by building a $300,000 road, finding $150,000 in state funds for a training program, extending a railroad spur to the plant's back door, negotiating with the owner of the 37-acre site to drop its price, and even renaming its county highway for Coilplus.

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