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TOPEKA, Kansas
Population: 127,215
Unemployment: 4.6 percent
Project: $100 million expansion of Mars Chocolate’s manufacturing facility
It’s a measure of how effective local officials are that when Mars Chocolate decided to invest in a $100 million expansion of its Midwest operations, it considered eight separate locations before determining to stay in Topeka. Five years earlier, the candy giant had announced it would build a 350,000-square-foot facility, its first U.S. project in 35 years, one Mars officials attribute to local organizations such as GO Topeka, its professionalism, enthusiasm and incentives.
