Family Dollar to create 350 Ind. jobs

Family Dollar Stores, Inc. is planning to create 350 Indiana jobs to staff its soon-to-be built distribution facility in Ashley, Ind.

The Indiana Economic Development Corporation offered Family Dollar as much as $2.1 million in performance-based tax credits and as much as $200,000 in training grants for its job-creation plans.

The North Carolina-based discount retailer plans to invest nearly $70 million in the construction of the 815,000-square-foot facility — the company’s tenth such facility in the nation. The company now operates 6,800 stores in 44 states throughout the United States.

The facility should be fully operational by spring 2012, and employment applications for the distribution center will become available early next year.