2024 Deal of the Year Awards — an annual recognition of economic development projects demonstrating innovation and impact.

CALL FOR ENTRIES: 2024 Deal Of The Year Awards
Submit By November 21st!

Florida Has Broad Benefits For Business

Florida offers incentives to all industries that want to take advantage of the Sunshine State's robust infrastructure.

Smooth Sailing In Hernando County, FL: The Best Place To Anchor Your Business

Whether touching down on the freshly paved airport runway, navigating a quick development process, or ensuring workforce needs are met, the current flows smoothly in Hernando County.

Due west of Orlando, in the Tampa Bay Region, Hernando County is an area of growing appeal among developers. As the geographic center of the Sunshine State, it is a hub of multi-modal routes for efficient transportation and logistics.

Hernando County
The 175,000-square-foot Barrette Outdoor Living PVC fencing and decking manufacturing plant sits on 15 RailPark acres, and is nearly complete after 12 months, thanks to Hernando County’s EPIC Program. (Photo: Hernando County Office of Economic Development)

 

With its infrastructure-ready land for development, Brooksville–Tampa Bay Regional Airport & Technology Center (BKV) serves up a variety of build-to-suit sites. Perfect for aircraft-related businesses, this general aviation airport features a 7,000-foot runway, an air traffic control tower, and new roadways revealing airside development opportunities. Airport acreage is also prime for Florida’s soaring Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) ecosystem.

Part of BKV, the Technology Center is a premier business location and Hernando County’s epicenter of economic development. BKV’s master-planned 2,400-acre campus boasts features such as available manufacturing buildings, over 1,000 acres of land for development, and a 285-acre Duke Energy Ready Site.

Time is money and a friction-free journey from project concept to completion is game-changing. That’s why Hernando County’s Expedited Permitting Inspection and Certification (EPIC) Program is a powerful tool prized by industry leaders. For national exterior home products manufacturer, Barrette Outdoor Living, EPIC helped streamline its third major BKV expansion. The 175,000-square-foot manufacturing plant is expected to take just 14 months from ground-breaking to certificate of occupancy. A prior Barrette Outdoor Living facility took just nine months using the EPIC Program. Now boasting 475,000 square feet of manufacturing and distribution space at BKV, Barrette Outdoor Living personifies the Hernando County partnership approach and efficient build-to-suit system.

With access to 300,000 workers within a 30-minute drive, a technical high school, and the new Wilton Simpson Technical College nearby, successful businesses like Barrette Outdoor Living, Pem-Air Turbine Engine Services, Airdyne Aerospace, AccuformNMC, and Micro-Matic USA enjoy an active talent pipeline.

Future workforce readiness is a top priority in Hernando County. The Hernando Economic Academic Response Team (HEART) is a unique and powerful partnership among economic development, school district, and post-secondary institution leadership created to best serve businesses and the community.   

Hernando County is also known as Florida’s Adventure Coast, thanks to an abundance of coastal and other outdoor recreational activities. On the Gulf of Mexico, the Hernando County coast holds magnetic appeal with some of the best fishing, scalloping, and shallow-water boating in west central Florida. Inland, championship golf courses and tranquil waterways await discovery.

Hernando is the most affordable county in the Tampa Bay Region, delivering lifestyle options from waterfront to country club to ranches to historic homes. Community amenities and a business-friendly government buoy success with available land and a well-trained workforce. Join a rising tide of businesses choosing a Hernando County, FL location.

Visit www.hernandobusiness.com for more information.

Click here to continue reading.

Aerospace/Defense/Aviation, Capital Investment, Economic Development, Featured, Florida, Incentives, Taxes & Financing, Industries, Infrastructure & Logistics, Logistics/Warehouse/Distribution, Magazine, Magazine Highlights, Manufacturing, Site Selection Factors, State Focus, USA - Southeast, Utilities, Workforce Development

BF-July/August-2023, business, Business Locations, Capital Investment Tax Credit, florida, Florida Chamber of Commerce, Governor Ron DeSantis, Greater Fort Lauderdale, Hernando County, High Impact Performance Incentive, Incentives, Indian River County, Infrastructure, Pasco County, Pinellas County, Port Tampa Bay, Putnam County, Single Location, Sunshine State

Sponsored Content
Featured Location

Location Spotlight: Explore Minnesota

With a diverse economy built on industry-leading companies, thriving small businesses, high innovation rates, world-class infrastructure and a skilled, educated, and engaged workforce, there’s room for everyone to thrive.

Featured Video

Camp Hall – A Next Generation Commerce Park in South Carolina

Camp Hall is a first-of-its-kind, master-planned industrial work space located in Charleston, S.C. As a convergence of people, place and programming, Camp Hall delivers thoughtful infrastructure and logistical features that empower people — and business — to thrive.

Webinars, Podcasts & Videos

Minnesota is home to the #1 health care cluster in the world according to Medical Alley. In this short video we take a look at why.

Doing Business in Minnesota, a Microbiologics Perspective

Minnesota is a place where the stars align — geography, culture and institutions – to create an unmatched economic landscape. See why Microbiologics CEO Kristen Knox says there’s no place in the world she’d rather do business than in Minnesota.

Camp Hall – A Next Generation Commerce Park in South Carolina

Camp Hall is a first-of-its-kind, master-planned industrial work space located in Charleston, S.C. As a convergence of people, place and programming, Camp Hall delivers thoughtful infrastructure and logistical features that empower people — and business — to thrive.

Manufacturing Success In The 21st Century

Watch Now: Manufacturing Success In The 21st Century

View this free video webinar and learn about the strategies for success manufacturing leaders are using to grow their business in the 21st Century.

Share to...