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Airpark Launches New Website posted on 21 Apr 2006 We are proud to announce the official launch of the new East Texas Regional Airpark website. Foreign Trade Zone Hailed posted on 21 Apr 2006 East Texas Regional Airport's designation as a foreign trade zone was touted Monday, March 21st, as a key econmic development tool that could attract industry to East Texas.

1. Easy and quick access to airport, minus the congestion of flying/operating at larger, busier facilities

2. 10,000ft x 150’ wide ILS runway adjacent to 300 acre industrial airpark and Foreign Trade Zone – with radar traffic control you’ll avoid the hassles of operating in Class B airspace – the airport’s pro-business FAA Control Tower makes operating in-and-out of the airport efficient and trouble-free

3. New, modern terminal facilities and full aircraft turn-around servicing available

4. Cost-effective landing fees - $0.30/1,000lb. vs DFW’s $1.57-$2.15/1,000lb fee

5. 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

6. 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 – to name a few

7. 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

8. Location, location, location

- Airpark located adjacent to airport - Bordered by a state highway scheduled to be made into a four-lane highway with   identified truck   turn-outs the spring of 2,000 - Nearby I-20 interstate highway, rail service by three railroad systems, motor   freight service by fourteen national truck lines and the new Canada/USA/Mexico   NAFTA inter-country highway   business corridor - Airpark situated 120 miles east of Dallas and 60 miles west of the Port of   Shreveport on I-20 - Regional population is 208,720 persons; City of Longview population is 75,150   persons with a  major industrial/manufacturing base and eleven (11) colleges and   universities within a sixty mile   radius of Longview - Quality Of Life - Longview Symphony Orchestra - Longview Museum of Fine Arts - Longview Ballet Theatre - Longview Opera Company - Longview Community Theatre - Quality hospitals, churches, schools - 25 lakes within 75 miles of Longview

9. Businesses locating here may qualify for exemptions from property taxes on buildings, machinery, equipment, inventories and other improvements for up to ten (10) years

10. Various job training programs available, such as Texas’ Smart Jobs program in which this program will pay for training employees in areas of production improvement, supervisory skills, on-the-job training and computer skills