Business View Magazine | April 2019

168 LOGANSPORT, INDIANA that we’re addressing is housing,” Kitchell ad- mits.” Last year, we finally did something that I wanted to do when I came in, and that’s have a housing master plan. We’ve accomplished that and we’ve identified the need for about 400 units in the city. That’s at all income levels and it doesn’t include projects that we already have that are going to add about 70 units – 40 market-rate apartments and 30 single fam- ily homes. We’ve got a lot of work to do, but we’ve done a lot of work in three years and our unemployment rate, now, is 3.6 percent, which is the state average. It’s holding steady, which is a phenomenal indicator for us.” Kitchell understands that attracting families and workers to relocate to Logansport will depend on offering a high quality of life, and in that regard, he believes that the city is on the right track. “Last year, we were named the Number One Small Town in America where you’d want to live, by Realtor.com,” he states. “The crime rate is low; we have over three miles of trails; our high school is an ‘A’ school; we also invested in our medical care. We sup- ported our hospital with our own economic Businesses come to town. Neighbors stay. — We’re proud to be a neighbor in Logansport for over 20 years. tysonfoods.com ©/ ® / ™ Tyson Foods, Inc. 11135736