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Columbia Regional Economic Development Incorporated (REDI) president Stacey Button says the massive new Swift Foods plant on Route B will open in early 2023. She says they're currently hiring employees, and that the plant will produce 40-million pounds of food product each year, when it opens. The plant is bringing about 250 new jobs to Columbia. Ms. Button joined 939 the Eagle's Fred Parry in-studio for the hour Saturday morning on the "CEO Round Table." She also updated listeners on the $100-million planned expansion at Columbia's EquipmentShare, and on efforts to add leisure destinations at Columbia Regional Airport: