TIPTON, Ind. (AP) — Chrysler’s Tipton Transmission Plant, a sprawling factory seven years in the making, was dedicated Tuesday during an event that celebrated the promise of 850 jobs.

“Finally!” Tipton Mayor Don Havens exclaimed, summing up the collective feeling of the community and its workers after watching other employers emerge for the plant site along U.S. 31 south of Kokomo and then disappear.