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NORTH MANKATO — The city hopes to keep a $280,000 lease deposit made on the former Norwood Inn, which has been used to house about 200 workers from a Windom
With ultra-low pork prices seriously denting hog farm profitability, the federal government made the meat purchase under a Great Depression-era program.
The new buyer will not retain the workforce, which totaled 1,007 employees at the time of bankruptcy. A South Dakota pork group will buy the plant's hogs for $1.3 million.