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The business climate in
Box Butte County is very positive
Recent and ongoing
activities within our area provides proof of a positive
and progressive economic environment:
- LB840 The citizens of Alliance
voted in favor of LB 840, the Local Option Sales Tax, which allows sales tax
money to be collected for economic development projects.
- Perrin Manufacturing
received state block grant money and city economic development funds for a
30,000-foot, $665,000 expansion.
- The Hemingford Cooperative Telephone
Company is planning large improvements and expansions of service.
- A new telecommunications company has built towers to accomplish wireless cell phone service.
- A major manufacturer is planning a large
expansion.
- Two value-added agriculture projects are
in the works.
- The city is planning a complete
downtown
revitalization, having received a planning grant for the first stage.
- Major street and highway improvements and
resultant landscaping have been accomplished and/or are in the works.
- A new power lineman training school has
been established and the nursing program is being expanded through Western
Nebraska Community College.
- A state veteran's cemetery is in the
fundraising stage, having received almost one-quarter of the needed donations
in less than a year.
- Box Butte General Hospital
has several new
areas of service, including a dialysis unit, dental surgical unit and tele-health capabilities.
- The airport recently completed a lighting
system that is the next step to an instrument landing system, which was just
funded by the federal government.
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The Heartland Expressway has received the
last piece of the planning money needed to complete the project through the
Panhandle.
- High incomes will be
maintained in 2008 and 2009.
Both farm and non-farm employment and personal
income growth is expected to continue to advance at good rates
- Retail employment is expected to have
increased by 1.1 percent in 2007. Overall growth in net taxable retail sales
is expected to reach 5.0 percent in 2007. This is well above the inflation
rate of approximately 3 percent.
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- The state has numerous block grant and
tax incentive opportunities for
industrial and manufacturing expansion help and the city has local option sales
tax funds for both retail and industrial expansions (all tied to job creation
and investment) and a tax increment financing study area.
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