26 Business View Magazine - May 2016
behind us; we got our economic development folks be-
hind us; we got the newspaper behind us; everybody
was ready for something to happen. We couldn’t have
found a better time, in my opinion, because while ev-
erybody else was doing nothing, we were very busy. I
said when this recession is over with, we’re going to
come out of it ready to compete with the rest of the
world. And that is what’s happened.”
Payne likes the idea of Owensboro being a competitive
