MISSOURI: The Perfect Center
incentive for new and expanding employ- ers, but this is considered one of the more business-friendly, with clear-cut eligibil- ity criteria,” Chung says. Another program, Enhanced Enterprise Zones, provides tax credits against corpo- rate income tax to companies that create as few as two jobs with $100,000 in invest- ments. These credits are refundable and saleable, providing a source of funds for equipment, land, or building. Employers that create jobs in Missouri generally are delighted with the work of the people who fill them. “Employees in Missouri possess a genuine work ethic. They believe in an honest day’s pay for an honest day’s work,” says Milton Cornwell, chief operating officer at Materialogic, a 3PL based in St. Louis. With its hard-working employees,
OPPORTUNITIES UNDERGROUND: With temperatures averaging just below 60 degrees year-round, Missouri’s former limestone mines provide natural climate control for subterranean storage.
logistics hubs go, this state at the center of the country is just about perfect. ■ For information on featuring your region in an Economic Development Supplement, contact James O. Armstrong at 815-334-9945 or jim@inboundlogistics.com.
business-friendly atmosphere, outstand- ing facilities, and numerous options for connecting efficiently to markets through- out the United States and the world, Missouri continually adds new chapters to the story of commercial expansion that Lewis and Clark began in 1804. As
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