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Decatur provides:
- A variety of shovel-ready sites. View available properties.
- Dependable water source via Lake Decatur with 6 billion gallons and increased treatment capacity
- Affordable, deregulated electric and natural gas utilities
- The Midwest Inland Port, a multi-modal transportation hub located in Decatur that delivers international flexibility for companies through a well- positioned transportation corridor, connecting the Midwest to the East, West and Gulf Coasts of North America.
- Exceptional distribution reach to more than 95 million consumers within a 500-mile radius, which is a greater reach than Chicago, St. Louis, and Kansas City.
- Available and skilled workforce
- Bandwidth: few cities around the State of Illinois can compete with the fiber optic bandwidth we offer in Decatur. Along with an existing fiber network, the City and the School District will continue to extend the routes.
Some of the benefits of the Midwest Inland Port include:
- An intermodal ramp with 25-minute average turn times with direct access to Class I Railroads connecting to all North American rail networks
- A diverse community of importers and exporters in the area creates opportunities for intermodal container match-back shipments
- Non-congested, toll-free access to one of the country’s heaviest trucking and railway traffic flows
- A quick channel to coastal and export markets
- Possible reduced supply chain logistics costs.
- Third Party Logistics providers offering freight forwarding, transloading, warehousing, stock management, temperature-controlled storage and more
- An abundance of competitively priced labor and an available workforce
- An airport equipped with a Foreign Trade Zone, a Fixed-Based Operator (FBO) and runways measuring 8,400’ long and 150’ wide to handle large aircrafts
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