Advantages of location in the East Texas Foreign Trade Zone

• Easy and quick access to airport, minus the congestion of flying/operating at larger, busier facilities
• 10,000ft x 150ft wide ILS runway adjacent to 300 acre industrial airpark and Foreign Trade Zone – the airport’s pro-business FAA Control Tower with radar traffic control –help travelers avoid the hassles of operating in Class B airspace and make operating in-and-out of the airport efficient and trouble-free
• New, modern terminal facilities and full aircraft turn-around servicing available
• Cost-effective landing fees - $0.30/1,000lb. vs DFW’s $1.57-$2.15/1,000lb fee
• Business owners will find Gregg County’s pro-business perspectives easy to work with when it comes to starting-up a new business in the airport’s 300 acre Industrial Airpark and Foreign Trade Zone
• Airpark commercial sites are adaptable to a wide range of domestic and international business uses – including light manufacturing, corporate offices, warehousing/distribution operations, air cargo and heavy airlift operations, Foreign Trade Zone operations, and freight forwarding
• The Development Board and management of the airport and airpark are skilled, successful business persons ready to assist companies to locate in the airpark. This group is skilled at determining the needs of a potential tenant and structuring a package of the airport’s assets to address those needs
• Location, location, location
• Businesses locating here may qualify for exemptions from property taxes on buildings, machinery, equipment, inventories and other improvements for up to ten (10) years
• Various job training programs available, such as the Texas’ Smart Jobs program, pays for training employees in areas of production improvement, supervisory skills, on-the-job training and computer skills