Fair Oaks Farms Brands Plans 133 Jobs, $127M For Coopersville, MI Milk Plant

Gov. Rick Snyder recently announced a $900,000 incentive grant from the state to induce a second milk processing company to invest in the former Delphi automotive parts plant in Coopersville.

Fair Oaks Farms Brands will produce “nutritionally enhanced liquid milk products” and is investing $127 million that it says will ultimately create 133 jobs.

Ken Rizzio, executive director of the Ottawa County Economic Development Office, played a key role in helping Fair Oaks Farms get the Michigan Business Development Program’s “performance-based grant,” as it was described in Snyder’s announcement.

Fair Oaks Farms was “looking at (building its new bottling plant) in other states,” including New York, Pennsylvania and Indiana, according to Rizzio, “so that grant helped secure the project for Coopersville.”

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