Wal-Mart announced plans Friday to build a milk processing plant in Allen County that will employ more than 200 people. The Indiana Economic Development Corporation said in a news release, the 200 jobs will happen by end of 2017.

Wal-Mart is the nation's largest grocer. The company will build the 250,000-square-foot plant in Fort Wayne, in southern Allen County. It's expected to be one of the largest milk processing facilities in the country and mill produce Great Value and Member's Mark brand white and chocolate milk for more than 600 Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky.

Production is expected to start in the summer of 2017.

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