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Laurens County, SC is a Rapidly Growing Distribution Hub I-26 Greenville I-385 I-77 I-85 Laurens Laurens County is located Florence between the metropolitan areas of Columbia Greenville-Spartanburg and Columbia, midway between Atlanta, GA and Charlotte, NC. Sofa Express The region provides an 95,000-square-foot County, SC building in Laurens Charleston excellent location to serve the entire East Coast. The county is dissected by two Interstates (I-385 and I26), making it easily accessible to I-85 and the Port of Charleston. Current unemployment in the the specific needs of individual comcounty is 6.3%, which is above the panies. The state also offers a statustate average of 5.7%. Distribution tory incentive to both new and existaccounts for 18.5% of the employ- ing companies that create new jobs ment in Laurens County. The in the state. ReadySC, a state procounty is home to nine distribu- gram, will train employees through tion companies, including the the Technical College System at no largest, Wal-Mart. cost to the company. A 95,000-square-foot distribuFor more information, visit us at tion facility currently is available in www.laurenscounty.org. Hunter Industrial Park in Laurens. The building formerly occupied by Johnson County, TN, a Center Sofa Express has a 44 ft. ceiling of Logistics Activity Although Johnson City, TN is height and more than 20 dock doors, and is located on 18.5 acres. well known for its highly developed The county offers four industrial educational and medical economy, parks; Owings Industrial Park, with the East Tennessee State UniHunter Industrial Park and Clinton versity College of Medicine, a new Park Corporate Center III are all College of Pharmacy, and several Certified Sites (shovel ready) by the major hospitals, manufacturers and South Carolina Department of distributors key elements of the local Commerce. Additionally, the county economic base. More than 160 offers numerous stand-alone sites up manufacturing firms are located in to 1,000 acres, many of which have Johnson City and Washington County, TN. rail service. The county will reduce the assessThe key to distribution is locament ratio by more than 40% for a tion. Johnson City’s central location period of 20 years with a Fee-In-Lieu in the eastern United States has creof Tax for companies investing at least ated a hot market for corporate relo$2.5 million; it also has the ability to cations, business expansions, and offer a 10-year Special Source Rev- new business start-ups. The region’s vastly improved enue Credit that further reduces taxes. The state offers a potential discre- highway system is vitally important tionary incentive that rebates a por- to the development of the wholetion of new employees withholding sale/distribution industry. Four-lane taxes, which can be use to address highways now link Johnson City to I-20 I-26 I-95 #2427 at www.BusinessFacilities.com A S P E C I A L A D V E RT I S I N G S E C T I O N O F B U S I N E S S FA C I L I T I E S A N D L O G I S T I C S M A N A G E M E N T PHOTO CREDIT: LAURENS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION http://www.laurenscounty.org http://www.troyohiochamber.com http://www.growpiquanow.org http://www.BusinessFacilities.com

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