Bear Paw Development builds businesses, communities in Montana

April 22, 2008

Bear Paw Development Corp.'s http://www.bearpaw.org/ efforts helped coordinate $15.6 million of new investment in the five-county area it serves in 2007, retain or create 84 jobs and leveraged every $1 of local government funding with $173 from outside sources.

Those are the numbers recently released in the 2007 annual report for the economic development organization that serves Hill, Blaine, Liberty, Chouteau and Phillips counties.

By JO DEE BLACK Tribune Business Editor

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