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SUPPORTING SOUTHWEST ARIZONA BUSINESSES Through International Trade Please  visit our website at www.yumaftz.com

As the grantee, Greater Yuma Economic Development Corporation is responsible for oversight of Foreign Trade Zone #219, located in Yuma County, Arizona.

Benefits for locating your business in a FTZ include:

• The area is treated as though legally outside of the U.S. Custom's territory.

• Merchandise may be brought in duty-free for purposes such as storage, repacking, display, assembly or manufacturing.

• Imports may be landed and stored quickly without full customs formalities.

• Businesses located in a zone, or sub-zone, eligible for an 80 percent reduction in state real and personal property taxes.

For properties listed in the Greater Yuma area please visit our GIS Planning site.

All reports can be generated up to a 60 mile radius around the identified property.

NEWS CENTER

Please visit the Yumans Unified for Military Activities website www.yumaf35.org to register your support and read current articles on the F35 Joint Strike Fighter

BrightSource Energy Raises An Additional $150 Million of Equity Financing  (Click title to download news article.

All interested individuals and organizations are encouraged to comment on the Draft EIS in one of the following ways:
1)      Submitting a comment card at one of the public open house meetings
2)      Speaking directly to a court reporter at one of the public open house meetings
3)      Filling out the digital comment form on the project public website at www.usmcJSFwest.com
4)      Sending a comment card by mail directly to:

JSF West Coast EIS
Project Manager,
NAVFAC SOUTHWEST,
1220 Pacific Hwy.
San Diego, CA 93132.

The Agua Caliente Solar Project, a generating facility planned for Eastern Yuma County, Arizona, is being developed by NextLight Renewable Power. It will utilize either solar thermal technology with storage capability (Concentrating Solar Power) with a production capacity of 280 MW or photovoltaic technology with up to 425 MW of peak production capability.  www.aguacalientesolarproject.com

Pauley Construction (Quanta Services) 

RFP’s will be posted Thursday, May 27, 2010 by 9:00a.m.  Please click on link below to take you to the forms.

http://www.pauleyconstructioninc.com/index.html

Community urged to voice its concerns, support for F-35 - Maj. James Combs, community plans and liaison officer for MCAS
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Arizona Sun Corridor:  Open For Business
www.locateinarizona.com

2008 - 2009 Year End Report
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2009 BRE Report
Click to Download - 23.8MB

2009 Greater Yuma EDC Investor Luncheon
Presentation by Jim Rounds
Click to Download - 10.4MB

Greater Yuma EDC serves as the economic development entity for the following jurisdictions in the State of Arizona: Yuma County, City of Yuma, City of San Luis, City of Somerton and Town of Wellton.

Greater Yuma EDC is a public/private partnership formed under a 501 (c) 6 charter in 1985. The organization is governed by a Board of Directors and operated under the direction of a President/CEO.