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"Florida is open for business." - Charlie Crist, Gov. of Florida
Your 2008 Florida Opportunity Guide
The following magazine was left in our room this week while
staying at the Amelia Island Resort.
The magazine titled - Northwest states the following:
Brimming with Possibilities -
Florida's Northwet grows new business on solid military, aviation
and tourism roots. By Charlotte Crane
The cultural landscape of the 16-county Northwest region manages
to retain its color and charm while the region also earns top-gun
rankings in defense and aerospace, educational leadership and white-
sands tourism. Northwest Florida is home to the U.S. Air Force's
largest air base and the only high-magnetic field laboratory in the
Western Hemisphere, not to mention luxury resorts and progressive
new-town communties.
Until the late 1990's, timber, fishing and textiles ruled the economy
here; today's core businesses are retail, construction and tourism.
And the strongest gains are in aerospace, information technology,
biomedicine, international commerce and alternative energy.
Helping growth happen in this region is an ample stock of logistical
essentials: interstate highways, cross-regional and short-line rail, and
four regional airports, plus two deepwater ports and a third undergoing
redevelopment.
PCB Ready for Takeoff
PCB County's new super-sized airport is poised for takeoff; construction
is slated to begin in late 2007. The $331-million international airport will
be located at West Bay on 4,000 acres donated by Florida's largest
private landowner, The St. Joe Comapany. Plants for residential,
industrial and commercial development adjacent to the airport promise
to add business, job sand tax benefits, according to airport authority,
chairman Joe Tannehill.
Traffic at Port Panama City logged a 57% gain in 2006. Beginning in
2008, the port will be handling some 300,000 tons per year of
compressed wood pellets bound for Europe from Green Circle Bio Energy
Inc..
PCB, a perennial favorite for vacationers, continues to attract new
resorts. The lates is Splash, a luxury condo resort by The Sterling
Companies that has been named one of this year's hot new beach
resorts by Florida Travel & Life.
This was a comp they gave for Northwest Florida:
Population 1,309,347
Labor Force 661,176
Households 522,200
AVG Household EBI $43,094
Consumer Spending $22.80bil.
Total Retail Sales $23.26bil.
Consumer spending and retail sales surpassed the Southwest
region - Naples, Marco Island, Cape Coral, Captiva & Sanibel
Time will tell, but with the International Airport and w/o any
hurricanes almost......2 years now...cross my fingers....our area will
prosper and the real estate market will come back in time....
This area of Northwest Florida is just too nice to pass by.......
"Florida is open for business." - Charlie Crist, Gov. of Florida
Your 2008 Florida Opportunity Guide
The following magazine was left in our room this week while
staying at the Amelia Island Resort.
The magazine titled - Northwest states the following:
Brimming with Possibilities -
Florida's Northwet grows new business on solid military, aviation
and tourism roots. By Charlotte Crane
The cultural landscape of the 16-county Northwest region manages
to retain its color and charm while the region also earns top-gun
rankings in defense and aerospace, educational leadership and white-
sands tourism. Northwest Florida is home to the U.S. Air Force's
largest air base and the only high-magnetic field laboratory in the
Western Hemisphere, not to mention luxury resorts and progressive
new-town communties.
Until the late 1990's, timber, fishing and textiles ruled the economy
here; today's core businesses are retail, construction and tourism.
And the strongest gains are in aerospace, information technology,
biomedicine, international commerce and alternative energy.
Helping growth happen in this region is an ample stock of logistical
essentials: interstate highways, cross-regional and short-line rail, and
four regional airports, plus two deepwater ports and a third undergoing
redevelopment.
PCB Ready for Takeoff
PCB County's new super-sized airport is poised for takeoff; construction
is slated to begin in late 2007. The $331-million international airport will
be located at West Bay on 4,000 acres donated by Florida's largest
private landowner, The St. Joe Comapany. Plants for residential,
industrial and commercial development adjacent to the airport promise
to add business, job sand tax benefits, according to airport authority,
chairman Joe Tannehill.
Traffic at Port Panama City logged a 57% gain in 2006. Beginning in
2008, the port will be handling some 300,000 tons per year of
compressed wood pellets bound for Europe from Green Circle Bio Energy
Inc..
PCB, a perennial favorite for vacationers, continues to attract new
resorts. The lates is Splash, a luxury condo resort by The Sterling
Companies that has been named one of this year's hot new beach
resorts by Florida Travel & Life.
This was a comp they gave for Northwest Florida:
Population 1,309,347
Labor Force 661,176
Households 522,200
AVG Household EBI $43,094
Consumer Spending $22.80bil.
Total Retail Sales $23.26bil.
Consumer spending and retail sales surpassed the Southwest
region - Naples, Marco Island, Cape Coral, Captiva & Sanibel
Time will tell, but with the International Airport and w/o any
hurricanes almost......2 years now...cross my fingers....our area will
prosper and the real estate market will come back in time....
This area of Northwest Florida is just too nice to pass by.......
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