Northern Star
DeKALB – Mayor Cohen Barnes, sworn in on May 10, expects his time in office to be dominated by an economic windfall brought about by the arrival of two mega-corporations in DeKalb.
Social media monolith Facebook and the Chicago-based Ferrara Candy Company, producer of treats such as Laffy Taffy and Nerds, have both recently invested significant business infrastructure within the City of DeKalb, facilities that Barnes said will start bearing fruit within his term.
Ferrara’s new distribution facility and Facebook’s planned data storage center will amount to a combined total of roughly 2.5 million square feet of new development and will create over 1,000 new jobs in DeKalb, all of which will be coming online within the next two years.