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Cairo-Grady County Economic Development

Guide

Cairo-Grady County Chamber of Commerce &

Joint Development Authority Welcome you to explore our

community!

We look forward to assisting you in any way to make your visit as enjoyable as possible.

Welcome to Cairo - Grady County

Urban planners call this “livability.”

Longtime residents just call it “home.”

Whether you are a business owner, prospective resident, new employee or first time visitor, we know you will love the Cairo and Grady County

area.


Every day people discover Cairo and Grady County in the heart of southwest Georgia.

Cairo, conveniently situated on the Georgia-Florida state line, was incorporated in 1870 and has a rich history of explorers, pioneers and settlers who have made the area home for hundreds of years.


Make yourself at home

The Red Hills region’s farmland and timber provide a scenic backdrop for a quaint small town, outstanding quality of life, friendly neighbors and community spirit.

Known as “The Hospitality City,” Cairo is the seat of Grady County and is located 30 miles north of Tallahassee, Florida.

Our area offers the best of two worlds: Our citizens are within travelling distance to the amenities of a college town and capital city as well as the surrounding national forests, wildlife refuges and gulf coast beaches.

Location

Just a short drive away are venues for Broadway productions, symphonies, art galleries and museums as well as major college sporting teams. Yet, you can come home and enjoy the sense of community which comes from living in a rural setting where you know your neighbors.

Lifestyle

Outdoor Recreation Lake Seminole (~45 minutes) Gulf of Mexico & Beaches (~60 minutes) Golf (Cairo Country Club & Valley Pines Golf

Club) Hunting & Fishing Hiking, Paddling, Biking Motocross Birdsong Nature Center Trout Lilies Bloom - February

Quality of Life

Football & Festivals Championship High School Football - Fall Rattlesnake Roundup – January Great Southern Antique Car Rally – May Halloween Downtown Merchants - October Calvary Mule Day - November Cairo Christmas Parade - December

Quality of Life

Cairo-Grady County offers: Wide range of affordable housing Excellent schools, a technical college Modern hospital and medical facilities Numerous public and private employment

opportunities Diverse religious offerings Parks and recreation programs Historical movie theater Antique car museum Public library County museum and history center Downtown shopping Locally-owned restaurants and more.

Offerings

Major national and international corporations have located facilities in our community. Cairo-Grady County offers access to local, regional, national and global markets.

Business Community

Businesses range from… Agribusiness to Bioscience Light Manufacturing to Recycling Companies Warehousing to Distribution Hubs Green Technology Companies to Composite

Materials Automotive Parts to Fresh & Saltwater Boat

Building Apparel to Furniture Manufacturing Forest & Timber Products

Business Community

Grady County is a strategic tri-state location ideal for new business and expansion opportunities.

Amenities include… An abundance of land offerings Comprehensive building and site inventories State of the art technology, communications

infrastructure Adaptive re-use of architecturally and historically

distinctive properties Access to global markets

Strategic Location

Today’s economic success can be traced to several factors, including… History of food processing, agriculture, manufacturing The community’s commitment to support numerous

academic and technical training programs Modern transportation infrastructure

Air: local FBO, Rail: CSX, Major interstates and US highways, nearby ports

Internet service options with fiber optics - 10 GB broadband speeds

Leading-edge municipal utilities Commercial and industrial parks A vibrant downtown shopping district And a “can-do” attitude

Economic Success

Population: 26,681 (2015 Estimate – ECG) White: 64.6% Black: 30.2% Hispanic: 5.2%

Labor Force: 12,026 (May 2012 – GA Department of Labor) Unemployment: 7.4% (May 2012 – GA Department of

Labor) Education Attainment (2015 Estimate – ECG)

High School: 42.1% Some College: 15.9% Associates: 9.8% Bachelors: 6.3% Graduate: 3.6%

Grady County Demographic Snapshot

Unemployment by County

Economic Landscape: Industry Breakdown

Service Industry

Manufacturing Industry

Agribusiness & BioScience Manufacturing Health and Social Services Logistics/Distribution/Warehousing

Food Service Freight

* Retail Education Financial & Professional Services

Major Industries & Employers

Agribusiness & Bioscience Plant & Tree Nursery/Horticulture Production Fertilizer Production Pallet Manufacturing & Distribution Feed Mill Peanuts, Cotton, Pecans Row Crops Timber & Forest Products Seed/Corn Genetics Meat Processing Dairy


Grady County Farm Gate Rank & Value (2010)

State Rank Commodity Value

1 ORNAMENTAL HORTICULTURE $61,751,425

16 VEGETABLES $10,631,290

18 FRUITS & NUTS $5,462,782

21 ROW & FORAGE CROPS $43,175,761

28 AGBASED & NATUREBASED TOURISM and OTHER INCOME $7,340,529

34 POULTRY & EGGS $38,772,718

40 LIVESTOCK & AQUACULTURE $10,134,524

48 FORESTRY & PRODUCTS $4,356,127

4 TOTAL GROWER VALUE (except broiler-integrator) $154,204,401

15 TOTAL GROWER VALUE $181,625,182

Grady County Farm Gate Rank & Value (2010)

Textiles Cut & Sew Facility

Ladies boutique wear, camouflage clothing, aircraft seats, golf cart seats, and military bed tents. Variety of fabrics including woven, knits, corduroy, nylon, canvas and vinyl.

Furniture Upholstery Food Service Logistics / Distribution

Grocery Distributors – (2) Trucking/Transportation

Truckload/Heavy Freight Carriers (3)


Manufacturing Automotive & Industrial Equipment

Koyo Bearings Classic Consoles

Furniture Manufacturing & Distribution Woodhaven Furniture Industries/Aaron Rents

Boat Building (Recreational -Fresh & Salt) Seminole Marine Residential Elevator (Home

Building) Firearms Industry (Gun Components - Shotgun

Chokes) Trulock Tool Company


Manufacturing Home & Building Products

Diversified Window & Door Kinro Windows & Doors Flexible Technologies (Duct Products) Southern Storage Solutions (Outdoor Storage

Buildings) L & L Cypress & Millwood Riverwood Flooring & Paneling


Manufacturing Home & Building Products

Carraway Concrete Company (Concrete Manufacturing)

Florida Rock Industries United Structures (Light Gauge Metal Trusses and

Framing)


Banking & Finance Ameris Bank Bank of the Ozarks Capital City Bank Group Citizen’s Bank United National Bank Edward Jones


Green Industries A & R Metals, Inc. (Metals Recycling) Southern Metals Company Taylor Hydraulics (Paper, Plastic Recycling) Nu-Life Battery Systems(Auto/Commercial/Marine

Battery Recycling) Safety Kleen (Cooking/Motor Oil Recycling) Grease Tec (Cooking/Motor Oil Recycling)


Green Industries Aaron's Inc. – a/k/a Woodhaven Furniture

Industries (Cardboard, Foam , Fabric, Aluminum Cans & Plastic Bottles, Pallets and other Green Practices)

Graco Fertilizer Company (Composting, Mushroom Compost, Cow Manure, Pallet Recycling, Plastic Wrap/Shrink Wrap Recycling, Cardboard Recycling)


1. Existing Diverse Business Base2. Available Land –small and large land tracts3. Existing Infrastructure4. Low Cost of Business 5. Low Cost of Living - 19.5% lower than US

average (2012)6. Numerous Educational and Work Force

Training Resources7. Hospital / Medical Services

Competitive Advantage

Colleges and Universities Southwest Georgia Technical College Bainbridge College Thomas University Florida State University Florida A & M University Tallahassee Community College


Hospital / Medical Services Grady General Hospital Grady County Public Health Department Archbold Medical Center Tallahassee Memorial Hospital Capital Regional Medical Center Florida State University College of Medicine


Flexible Solutions Group (Headquartered in Abbeville, SC) Began search for location to expand during the housing

boom in 2ooo Wanted to be near Orlando to serve the FL market, but

found cost of business in FL to be unfavorable State of GA flew executives to south GA in private jet to

explore opportunities Toured Cairo with local business leader and found an

empty building in good condition Cairo had high unemployment at the time which enabled

Flexible Solutions to hire staff and operators quickly The GA “Quick Start” program made the process seamless Management team lived in Thomasville

Testimonial

Pioneer Seed Needed large tracts/acreage of available land Low cost of living Near major university for employment

opportunities of spouses Near college town for arts, cultural, dining,

entertainment and sporting events

Testimonial

Cairo is Central “Cairo is central to our distribution area and so it is very easy for us to get to the interstates from Cairo. We can be on I-10 in 30-40 minutes. We can be on I-75 in 30-40 minutes and, of course, US Highway 84 runs directly through Cairo. So, the highway system for us is key.

In our selection process, we went to several surrounding counties, municipalities including North Florida and over in Alabama in search of a site.

The local economic development board, the Cairo – Grady County Chamber of Commerce and the State of Georgia worked very well with us. There were no obstacles that were not removed and we completed our relocation on time.

The workforce here is good and the quality of the workers here has been exemplary.”

Buddy ParrishPerformance Food Service

Testimonial

Cable, Internet, Phone CNS (Community Network Services)

100 percent redundant SONET technology coupled with hybrid fiber coaxial network

500 miles of fiber optic cable point-to-point circuits at fractional T1, T1, DS3,

and 10 gigabit Ethernet speeds

Utilities

Windstream.net Up to 200 gigabit online storage Managed Replication Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network

Attached Storage (NAS) Cisco-branded network switch gear Data Centers with Windows, Linux and Solaris

operating systems

Utilities

Cairo Municipal Airport (70J) Local Fixed Based Operator (FBO) 4000’ Runway Rental Hangars Fuel

Tallahassee Regional Airport (35 miles) (KTLH) 8000’ Runway Local Fixed Based Operator (FBO) Commercial Aviation: American Airlines, Delta,

United , US Airways Express, General Aviation: Million Air Service, Eagle

Aircraft Corp – Cessna Pilot Center, Honda Jet Southeast - Flightline

Air Service

Grady County Rail Service: CSX Mainline in County OUT-BOUND Rail Freight :Rail Freight Tons: 139,494Rail Freight Value: $5,724,272Rail Freight Moves: 2,489

IN-BOUND Rail Freight:Rail Freight Tons: 13,711Rail Freight Value: $9,077,428Rail Freight Moves: 152

Rail Service

Georgia Ocean Freight Highlights: The Port of Savannah has been the Nation's fastest-growing

container port over the past eight years, and is the 4th largest in the USA and 2nd busiest on the East Coast.

The Port of Brunswick is the 5th largest auto port in the Nation, 3rd for auto imports, and is the 2nd largest grain facility on the East Coast.

The Port of Savannah was the 2nd busiest U.S. container port for the export of American goods by tonnage in FY2011 (behind only the Port of L.A.)

Port of Savannah handled 8.7% of all U.S. containerized cargo volume and 12.5% of all U.S. containerized exports in FY2011.

The Port today handles the most containerized poultry in the Nation and the most refrigerated containerized exports on the East Coast.

Port Service

OUT-BOUND Truck Freight:Truck Freight Tons: 224,410Truck Freight Value: $123,974,672Truck Freight Moves: 17,356 Outbound freight are those goods that originated in Grady County and had a destination outside the State of Georgia.

IN-BOUND Truck Freight:Truck Freight Tons: 132,244Truck Freight Value: $207,654,579Truck Freight Moves: 15,945 Inbound Freight are those goods that originated outside the State of Georgia and had a destination of Grady County.

Trucking Service

GA DOTAnnual Average Daily Traffic

TC # Route Type Local NoteRoute

NumberAADT AVG. Truck%

205 State Route (SR) Highway 84 3800 11275 14%

336 State Route (SR) US 319 3500 7827 11%




392 State Route (SR) 1st Avenue NE Spur 38 0038SP 5332 9%

169 County Road(CR) Whigham 179 22300 3820 N/A

189 County Road(CR) County Road 318 31800 3172 6%

177 County Road(CR) County Road 314 31400 2472 N/A


Three Industrial Parks1. Heritage Industrial Park2. Milestone Industrial Park3. Wight Road Property

Industrial Parks

Heritage Industrial Park•Commercial•Industrial •90 Acres•# Square Feet

Heritage Industrial Park

Milestone Industrial Park•255 Acres•Industrial•Rail Service•Building •Land

Milestone Industrial Park

Wight Road Property•111,000 sqft•23 Acres•40 Additional Acres Available•Commercial•Industrial•Sale or Lease•Single Tenant

Wight Road

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