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CONVENIENTLY SITUATED ATOP THE CECIL COUNTY Cecil County Office of Economic Development 200 Chesapeake Blvd., Suite 2700 Elkton, MD 21921 410-996-6292 www.cecilbusiness.org Edwin Remsberg POPULATION 2005 Estimate: 96,950 2010 Projection: 108,100 TRANSPORTATION Highways: I-95 (3 interchanges), U.S. 1, U.S. 40, U.S. 222, and U.S. 301. CLIMATE Yearly Precipitation (inches): 48.1 Yearly Snowfall (inches): 13.8 Summer Temperature (degrees F): 74.1 Winter Temperature (degrees F): 33.5 Duration of Freeze-Free Period: 191 days HOUSING Median Selling Price: All owner-occupied properties (2007): $260,000 All multiple-listed properties (2006): $252,000 RECREATION AND CULTURE Visit www.seececil.org/www.MarylandLife.com PERSONAL INCOME Per-Capita Personal Income (2005): $33,214 Employment in selected occupations: Management, professional and related: 16,686 (33.2%) Service: 7,561 (15.1%) LABOR AVAILABILITY (by place of residence, 2006) Civilian Labor Force: Total civilian labor force: 50,960 Employment: 48,738 Unemployment: 2,222 Unemployment rate: 4.4% Sales and office: 12,492 (24.9%) Production, transportation and material moving: 6,795 (13.5%) Residents commuting outside the county to work: 25,309 (50.4%) TOP FIVE EMPLOYERS Employer W.L. Gore & Associates Perry Point VA Medical Center Union Hospital of Cecil County ATK Terumo Medical Product/Service GORE-TEX medical products, R&D Medical services Medical services Propellants, rocket motors Medical products, R&D Employment 2,506 1,000 900 580 400 Chesapeake Bay along I-95 and US Rt. 40—the primary transportation link on the East Coast—Cecil County is in Maryland’s northeastern corner midway between Baltimore and Philadelphia, Fort Monmouth, NJ, and Aberdeen Proving Ground. Washington, DC, and New York are less than two hours away. Our central location on the Chesapeake Science & Security Corridor connects Cecil to a regional workforce of nearly 4 million, including technology graduates from the region’s 25 colleges and universities. Corporate campuses, along with office, lab, and flex parks, are concentrated near major interstate highways offering rapid connection to metropolitan centers, while new telecommunications infrastructure to these campuses provides system reliability, data, voice, and image integrity. Several available and under-development properties offer fiber-optic and wireless co-carriers. We offer families a cost of living nearly one-third lower than other major Northeastern cities and a quality of life that consistently exceeds expectations and includes hundreds of miles of Chesapeake Bay shore and five rivers, not to mention the international C&D Canal. Dynamic town centers, traditional and new neighborhoods, waterfront communities, and intriguing National Register historic sites and districts make Cecil a well-rounded and unique place. Each of Cecil’s existing industrial parks and corporate campuses has affordable land and buildings (available for immediate occupancy) ranging in size from 20,000 to 500,000 square feet. All nine of our business parks are State Enterprise Zones. Our Class-A flex office and lab space has expanded to include immediately available space from 3,500 to 45,000 square feet, and will quadruple in the near future to more than 250,000 square feet. A renaissance is taking place here with the development of private/public partnerships to tackle infrastructure issues from the basic needs of water and sewer to fiberoptic connectivity. This progressive initiative, in fact, has already drawn many well-known companies to Cecil County, including: •General Electric’s 1-million-square-foot East Coast distribution center in the 1,000-acre, rail-served Principio Business Park. •W.L. Gore & Associates manufactures GORE-TEX in Elkton with over 2,500 employees. •Terumo Medical’s Elkton facility has 550 employees making medical products and working in research and development. •ATK Elkton’s rocket motors and propellant campus on Route 40 in Elkton. •IKEA/Genco furniture-distribution facility is expanding to over 1.9 million square feet in Perryville. EDUCATION Educational Attainment- age 25 and over (2006) High School Graduate or Higher: 87.3% Bachelor’s Degree or Higher: 23.0% Public Schools: www.ccps.org Number: 17 Elementary, 6 Middle, 6 High Enrollment: 16,421 (Sept. 2006) Cost per Pupil: $9,402 (2005-2006) Higher Education (2006) Name 2-Year Institution Cecil College 26 RELOCATE MARYLAND 2008 Private Schools Number: 17 Enrollment: 2,441 (Sept. 2006) Students per Teacher: 14.2 (Oct. 2006) High School Career/Tech Enrollment: 1,426 (2007) High School Graduates: 963 (June 2006) Enrollment 1,945 Degrees 110 •Perryville Cold Storage uses rail service for frozen food shipment at Principio Business Park. http://www.cecilbusiness.org http://www.seececil.org http://www.MarylandLife.com http://www.ccps.org

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Relocate: Maryland Contents Maryland Map Welcome! Real Estate: Its Contribution to the MD Economy Why Use a REALTOR® What does BRAC Mean to Maryland? Allegany Anne Arundel/Annapolis Resources Baltimore County Baltimore City Calvert Caroline Carroll Cecil Charles Dorchester Frederick Garrett Harford Howard Kent Montgomery Prince George’s Queen Anne’s Somerset St. Mary’s Talbot Washington Wicomico Worcester/Ocean City

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