Business View Magazine | September 2020

223 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2020 company hires, if they would relocate or expand in Fishers, we could match up to 50 percent of those costs.” “Another program that we created, but hasn’t been widely used yet is our recruitment grant,” Baumgartner adds. “It’s very similar to the training grant; it’s a reimbursement of costs that an employer might put out trying to recruit top talent to our community. Prior to COVID, when the unemployment rate was really low, just like every other community across the nation, finding and attracting talented people to our community was a challenge. We knew that a lot of these companies were spending a considerable amount of money to get those talented people here. So, we were helping with travel expenses related to it - again just trying to do our part to help their efforts.” All of this activity has spurred a resurgence of downtown development, which, not coincidentally, has also been aimed at attracting the new generation of young workers and F I SHERS , INDI ANA