Why the Heartland is Right for Your Business
- All of Florida’s advantages for less. Long recognized as one of the top states for business, Florida offers a range of cost, tax and regulatory advantages such as zero personal income taxes, a business-friendly regulatory environment and attractive incentives. The Heartland offers all those advantages in a region where costs are significantly ower than metro areas. The Heartland gives your enterprise more of Florida at more affordable costs—and that opens more opportunity.
- Superior market reach. Reach all of Florida, from Miami to Tallahassee, with fast access to consumer and industrial markets, and to expanding markets in Central and South America and Mexico, where opportunities are ripe.
- Specialized workforce training provided by a talent pipeline geared for global performance, aligning top-flight educational programming with local business and industry needs to produce relevant skills that move innovation and industry forward.
- Omni-modal transportation network. Highway, port, air and rail—deliver over land, air or sea with a transit network that includes:
- Extensive Interstate, U.S. and state highway connections
- Class I rail coverage of the entire Eastern U.S. and beyond
- Seven deep water ports in convenient proximity
- Air connections, including three international airports and 10 local/regional airports.
- Global orientation. The Heartland offers a forward-facing outlook and advantages: Global skills, global ports, two Foreign Trade Zones, and air connections that include Air Glades, a specialized export and import cargo airport facility with a focus on perishable goods coming from Latin America.
Custom Concierge Relocation Services
Heartland economic development is a team effort. We work together at all levels—local, regional and state—bringing in governmental, community and educational resources to assure your relocation is seamless and satisfying to all levels of your organization, from the executive suite to the factory floor.