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ERIN MCCRACKEN \/ COURIER & PRESS Norm Bafunno, president of Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Indiana, high fives team member Belinda Chandler, from quality inspection, as they celebrated the start of production of the all-new 2014 Toyota Highlander in a ceremony at the Toyota plant in Princeton, Ind. earlier this month. The new production line of the Highlander has added an additional $430 million dollars in investment and 600 new jobs to the Princeton plant. The Princeton plant will now start production on three versions of the Highlander, the standard model, a hybrid Highlander and the Kluger, the Australian version of the Highlander. <\/p>\n
If you had to come up with a theme for the Tri-State's business and economic stories this year, that theme might be \"Stay Tuned.\" Several big developments this year generated a lot of interest, but wont be fully realized until at least 2014. Among them are Midwest Fertilizers planned $2.4 billion Posey County fertilizer project, Indiana Universitys planned medical school and health education center, and federal health care reform. <\/p>\n
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