A foundation based in Council Bluffs is creating a 165 MILLION dollar investment fund for more than four dozen southwest Iowa communities.
Steve Wild of Missouri Valley, president of the Charles E. Lakin Foundation’s board of directors, said the group’s “Revitalize Southwest Iowa Initiative” aims to reverse the economic and population declines that started in 1900.
“Since then, the exodus has been relentless, leaving behind a trail of shuttered businesses and fading dreams,” Wild said. “Across the river in east central Nebraska, a different narrative unfolds.”…