22-04-2025
Local towns offering $5K for people to move there
(WKBN) – Would you MOVE for money? Make My Move helps you find a place and the incentives available to get you to move. Mercer County is involved in it and is already seeing success.
Mercer County wants to grow. Three of its communities are participating in a program that pays people to move here.
'We really need people. We got to bring people in that want to work and give back to our community and really help drive Mercer County forward,' said Jack Rickert, associate executive director of Penn-Northwest Development.
Hermitage, Sharon and Greenville are offering $5,000 right now. There are some other incentives raising the value to nearly $7,000. The first guideline is you have to live over 100 miles away.'We wanted to recruit from further out, outside communities that you know, no one quite in that Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Erie region, and see who would be attracted to our area,' Rickert said.
Rickert believes the deal is perfect for a remote worker to come enjoy life in Mercer County. Over 100 applications have been made already. Penn-Northwest put up the seed money to get the program going. The application is to make sure people moving here will fit in.'Those are kind of our target audience that want to move into a safe community with great connectivity, great education systems and someone that can really benefit from everything Mercer County has to offer,' Rickert said.
Not everyone gets picked. The short-term goal is to see five families move here. At least two have already been picked. The next step is to have them start looking at housing and find out that Mercer County is a place to live, learn, work and play.
'And one of the ways to do that is to really bring in people who have the same values we do. So we're excited about it. We're excited to try to build Mercer County up and put us on a national platform,' Rickert said.
Other communities in Mercer County can participate, too. It's not just limited to Greenville, Hermitage and Sharon.
The two applications that have been accepted are families from Arizona and New Jersey.
If you know someone who could be interested, they can apply online.
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