Harold Force is the President of Force Construction Company, Inc.
I don't blog frequently, but I do want to share a few of my thoughts following the roundtable with Gerry Dick. The statistics on Asian companies operating in Indiana – investment, jobs, dollar turnover – truly speak for themselves.
- Consistency in state and community efforts to recruit companies from Asia (or anywhere else) is very important. And acting as a reliable business partner is critical in maintaining a relationship.
- The state of Indiana has been very careful to be fair in cases where multiple Indiana communities are being considered by a foreign-based company for the same project.
- Indiana has advantages over some neighboring states, in that we have a state-wide commercial building code and permit system; and environmental and construction permits are processed separately, not in a series.
