More than 100 local business owners sign ‘Buy 319’ pledge

A Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance campaign to encourage local business owners to purchase locally, dubbed “Buy 319,” is already producing measurable results, with 110 local business leaders signing a pledge to expand their consideration of local peers when buying goods and services.

The campaign, launched March 19 to tie into that date’s 3-19 nomenclature, is “challenging all businesses in the 319 area to make the…