The History of Greater Jobs, Inc.

Greater Jobs, Inc. is a private non-profit development corporation created in 1944 as Jobs, Inc. It was funded by local businessmen to solve the post WWII employment program. In the early 1950’s they created the first community industrial park in the United States.

In 1975, a new corporation was formed called the Albert Lea Industrial Development Corporation and later both entities were restructured and renamed Greater Jobs, Inc.