Newton Development Corporation Executive Director Frank Liebl has engaged in a number of projects over the years to fill the jobs lost when Maytag left. 

“Our goal is to continue to try and work with companies that are interested in filling some of our vacant buildings,” Liebl said. “We had great success last year in filling a number of buildings that have been vacant for quite some time, and that is our goal — to create a number of jobs, fill up available space and to try to shrink unemployment numbers.”

“We are just one entity that works in economic development,” Liebl said. “To take the community to where it needs to be it takes several people working together. I think we have seen that here in the past several months. We still have a lot of work to do.”