'Smart' card maker to expand

A Fort Wayne-based maker of financial and commercial plastic cards plans to add 4,400 square feet and 14 employees to its High Street location. A Greater Fort Wayne Inc. announcement on the $3.3-million CPI Card Group project said CME Build it Right would start construction in April. The additional employees will be hired during the next three years. CPI plans to invest $1.8 million in equipment and convert some of its office space at 613 High St. to production space. That conversion, the reconfiguration of some office space and the addition will cost $1.5 million.