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Strategic LocationWe’re Standing at the Crossroads
If you’re looking for growth, stability and longevity in a profitable location in the heart of the Midwest, look no further than the business environment that continues to draw Fortune 500 companies – the Southwest Michigan Corridor.
Add accessibility and connectivity, all strategically located to service more than one third of the U.S. population. Mix in the essential business components of a variety of inter-modal transportation systems for timely shipping of goods. Pave your way to success with a quality, affordable workforce in a scenic Midwestern setting where work-ethic is a proud tradition not a passing phase. Add that all up and you’ve got the footprint for the foundation of tremendous profit opportunities for your growing firm!
The Southwestern Michigan Corridor stands at the crossroads to your success:
• Just minutes from the area’s largest commercial and passenger airport, South Bend Regional, with connections to all major Midwest air hubs, including Dayton, Cincinnati and Detroit.
• Just a 20-minute flight away from domestic and international connections at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.
• Just 10 minutes from dedicated airfreight terminals for FedEx and UPS.
• Within a 600-mile just-in-time delivery radius of 13 states and 100 million U.S. customers -- more than 36 percent of the U.S. population -- via an integrated transportation network of highways, airports, railways and a commercial deepwater port.
•Strategically centered to ship to and receive goods from all major Midwest markets, our business expansion sites offer choice, profitable locations for manufacturing, fulfillment, office operations, call centers, e-commerce solutions, and warehousing and distribution.
It's no accident that nearly $600 million in new business investment was drawn to our area in just the last three years. Join our established regional base of innovators for your next business relocation or expansion. Let Southwestern Michigan's strategic location and generous relocation and expansion incentives put your growing company at the crossroads:
• Within a five-hour radius of more than 44 million customers -- more than one fifth of the of the U.S. population.
• Within overnight, over-the-road reach (via UPS) of more than 40 million U.S. customers.
• Within reach of a large, skilled, dedicated workforce ready to produce for profit.
A mere 90 minute drive to Chicago's Loop, the Southwestern Michigan Corridor is perfect for the special needs and opportunities of e-business, specialty manufacturing, supply chain and e-commerce driven commercial firms site-searching for:• Manufacturing facilities
• E-business fulfillment centers
• Customer service and call centers
• Replenishment/ warehouse and distribution facilities
• Linked manufacturing co-locations or consolidations
• Data processing centers
• Data storage and processing facilities
Connecting the conventional way – over the road, Interstates I-80/90, or the Indiana Toll Road east to Ohio and west to Chicago – is just minutes from our doorstep.
And Bertrand Crossing – the area’s 86-acre technology park that stands at the crossroads of U.S. 12 and U.S. 31 – is just minutes from the I-94 freeway west to Indiana, Chicago and Milwaukee or east to the I-69 to Detroit and Canada.
The Southwestern Michigan Corridor is —
| 54 mi. – Kalamazoo, MI 95 mi. – Chicago, IL 100 mi. – Grand Rapids, MI 125 mi. – Lansing, MI 144 mi. – Indianapolis, IN 165 mi. – Toledo, OH 186 mi. – Detroit, MI 196 mi. – Milwaukee, WI |
249 mi. – Cincinnati, OH 249 mi. – Madison, WI 263 mi. – Louisville, KY 264 mi. – Cleveland, OH 310 mi. – Green Bay, WI 363 mi. – St. Louis, MO 378 mi. – Pittsburgh, PA 402 mi. – Charleston, WV |
413 mi. – Des Moines, IA 433 mi. – Nashville, TN 433 mi. – Toronto, ON 457 mi. – Buffalo, NY 510 mi. – Minneapolis, MN 603 mi. – Kansas City, MO |
"The Southwestern Michigan Corridor has access to all the high capacity telecommunications backbone and last-mile capabilities from multiple national carriers usually found in much larger markets," says Sharon Witt, executive director of the Southwestern Michigan Economic Growth Alliance. "Combined with our central location, this is one of the most vibrant business environments in North America."
A Significant Cost AdvantageExpand your new manufacturing facility, office complex, warehouse, distribution or e-business fulfillment right in the center of North America's second largest over-the-road distribution zone and enjoy significant reductions in airfreight and express mail costs
The Southwestern Michigan Business Corridor is the cost-cutting location for just-in-time manufacturers, warehouse, fulfillment centers and distribution operations. This is because we're strategically centered between the majority of the largest metropolitan areas in the Midwest. Thus our UPS overnight, over-the-road delivery zone surpasses the volumes of Chicago, Indianapolis or even Detroit.
Our UPS overnight, over-the-road delivery zone is larger than any one of those markets!
So your distribution center or e-business fulfillment can reach more than 40 million customers overnight, over-the-road – that’s more than one-seventh of the United States population in a five-state area!
Add the East Coast and Southern major markets, and you've tagged our two-day UPS ground delivery zone. That's two-day over-the-road UPS delivery from Southwestern Michigan to more than half the U.S. population!
Need overnight airfreight delivery? You're just five miles from the region's largest airfreight hub at South Bend Regional Airport.
Transportation
From the scenic, successful Southwestern Michigan Corridor, your company links quickly and efficiently with all major points in the Midwest, the United States and virtually anywhere on the globe-- by land, air, rail or sea
Highways: less than one mile from U.S. 12 and U.S. 31 freeway (Bypass); five miles to I-80/90; 22 miles to I-94
Commercial Passenger Air: five miles to South Bend Regional Airport (major connecting hub to O'Hare International Airport); two miles to Jerry Tyler Municipal Airport, Niles
Air Freight: Five miles to FedEx and UPS dedicated terminals, South Bend Regional Airport
Freight Rail Service: Norfolk Southern facilities located throughout the area
Passenger Rail: two miles to Amtrak service to Detroit or Chicago; five miles to South Shore Rail line commuter service to Chicago
Great Lakes Port: twenty-five miles north to the deepwater Port of St. Joseph; access to 90 percent of the world’s merchant fleet on both domestic and international sea carriers; rail-served by the Chessie System
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