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JEDCO stands ready to help new, expanding, or relocating businesses become part of Churchill Technology and Business Park. For more information, call 1-800-816-3133 or visit www.churchillpark.org. Churchill Technology and Business Park will be the future home of the Patrick F. Taylor Science & Technology Academy, a secondary school dedicated to preparing students to meet 21st century challenges with an enriched education in mathematics, science and technology. By Air, Water, Rail or Road – Louisiana is Connected! trade, defense manufacturing, transportation, energy, petrochemicals, and new media. These business resources—along with eleven local colleges and universities and worldclass health operations—provide opportunities for tenants to uncover new opportunities for innovation and expansion. Churchill’s proximity to New Orleans also provides ample opportunities for play. Employees can enjoy cultural offerings of neighboring New Orleans, boundless recreation activities along the Gulf Coast and a family-oriented atmosphere within Jefferson Parish. Largely unscathed by Hurricane Katrina, the west bank of Jefferson has experienced tremendous growth over the last few years, providing a range of services and amenities including the Tournament Players Club Golf Course, the Alario Center, Bayou Segnette Sports Complex and Bayou Segnette State Park. Outstanding schools add to the area’s appeal. Spearheaded by the Jefferson Parish Economic Development Commission (JEDCO), Churchill is designed to provide the greatest flexibility to meet short-term goals and long-term vision. The park is divided into major parcels to accommodate a wide variety of businesses and facilities. Tenants also have the flexibility to choose lot sizes to meet specific needs rather than choose from subdivided lots. 42 AUGUST 2008 Sitting between two major metropolitan regions and on the Gulf of Mexico, regional Southwest Louisiana offers numerous transportation options without limitations. The Lake Charles Regional Port of Lake Charles Airport currently has 350 acres available for commercial and industrial development with rail and road access and a major U.S. port within 10 miles. Chennault International Airpark Authority, servicing industry players Chennault International such as Northrop Grumman, EADS Aeroframe Services, Pacific, Union and Louisiana MillPacific, and Kansas work, has 10,000 City Southern. Many feet of runways and industrial sites 800 acres of availlocated in Jeff Davis, able sites accessible to rail, road and Calcasieu and Beauregard Parishes water. These regional and interna- come with rail tie-ins. Bisected by Interstate 10, the tional airports have foreign trade and region is well served by several major enterprise zone designations. Airports in outlying areas include U.S. and state highways. Running the Allen Parish Airport, the Beaure- from the Gulf of Mexico to the tip of gard Parish Airport, the DeQuincy Beauregard Parish, Louisiana HighIndustrial Airpark, and the Jennings way 27 plays a major part in transAirport. porting and delivering seafood, oil, With its proximity to the Gulf of gas, and petrochemicals as well as Mexico, Southwest Louisiana serves serving as the commuting lifeline for as the home base for a vigorous the Gulf Oil Rig workers. petrochemical industry and several U.S. Highways 167 and 171 shoot ports including the Port of Lake off of I-10, supplying the region with Charles, which is the closest deep- goods from across the nation and water port in Louisiana and 11th delivering the products of Southwest largest in the nation, the West-Cal- Louisiana across America. If your company is looking for an casieu Port, the East Cameron Port economically and culturally diverse and the Vinton Port. Cameron Parish runs along the place to live and work, contact us at Gulf Coast and is home to various www.allianceswla.org. 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 industries from oil and gas companies to marine support vehicles and fishing boats. The East Cameron Port is one of the top five ports for fisheries in the nation. With three liquefied natural gas pipelines in the works for completion over the next three years, what happens in Cameron Parish keeps the lights on in Chicago. Southwest Louisiana has an extensive rail network serviced by Atchison, Topeka, Santa Fe, Southern PHOTO CREDITS: CHURCHILL TECHNOLOGY & BUSINESS PARK ; THE PORT OF LAKE CHARLES; CHENNAULT INTERNATIONAL http://www.churchillpark.org http://www.allianceswla.org

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