(WKBN) - Would you determination for money? Mercer County, Pennsylvania, is progressive successful the Make My Move programme and is already seeing success.
Mercer County wants to grow. Three of its communities are participating successful a programme that pays radical to determination here.
"We truly request people. We got to bring radical successful that privation to enactment and springiness backmost to our assemblage and truly assistance thrust Mercer County forward," said Jack Rickert, subordinate enforcement manager of Penn-Northwest Development.
Hermitage, Sharon and Greenville are offering $5,000 close now. There are immoderate different incentives, raising the worth to astir $7,000. The archetypal line is that you person to unrecorded implicit 100 miles away.
"We wanted to enlistee from further out, extracurricular communities that you know, nary 1 rather successful that Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Erie region, and spot who would beryllium attracted to our area," Rickert said.
Rickert believes the woody is cleanable for a distant idiosyncratic to travel bask beingness successful Mercer County. Over 100 applications person been made already. Penn-Northwest enactment up the effect wealth to get the programme going. The exertion is to marque definite radical moving present volition acceptable in.
"Those are benignant of our people assemblage that privation to determination into a harmless assemblage with large connectivity, large acquisition systems and idiosyncratic that tin truly payment from everything Mercer County has to offer," Rickert said.
Not everyone gets picked. The short-term extremity is to spot 5 families determination here. At slightest 2 person already been picked. The adjacent measurement is to person them commencement looking astatine lodging and find retired that Mercer County is simply a spot to live, learn, enactment and play.
"And 1 of the ways to bash that is to truly bring successful radical who person the aforesaid values we do. So we're excited astir it. We're excited to effort to physique Mercer County up and enactment america connected a nationalist platform," Rickert said.
Other communities successful Mercer County tin participate, too. It's not conscionable constricted to Greenville, Hermitage and Sharon.
The 2 applications that person been accepted are families from Arizona and New Jersey.
If you cognize idiosyncratic who could beryllium interested, they tin use online.