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SEBASTIAN CITY COUNCIL
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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2009 - 6:00 P.M.
CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS
1225 MAIN STREET, SEBASTIAN, FLORIDA
Mayor Gillmor called the Workshop to order at 6 pm.
2. The Pledge of Allegiance was recited.
3. ROLL CALL
City Council Present:
Mayor Richard Gillmor
Vice-Mayor Jim Hill
Council Member Andrea Coy
Council Member Dale Simchick
Council Member Eugene Wolff
Staff Present:
City Manager, AI Minner
City Clerk, Sally Maio
Police Chief, Jim Davis
Airport Director, Joe Griffin
Growth Management Director, Rebecca Grohall
MIS Senior Systems Analyst, Barbara Brooke-Reese
4. PROPOSED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR CITY OF SEBASTIAN (Draft
Plan
Staff Review of Updated Draft Plan
The City Manager explained the City Attorney had discussed with him that it is part of his
philosophy that the City Attorney should not be present at workshops so as not to bind Council
but rather to allow them to freely discuss issues, however, if anyone on Council felt differently
they should contact Mr. Ginsburg and let him know.
He then gave a brief informal presentation on the draft Economic Development Plan, which if
approved would be potentially incorporated as an element of the City's Comprehensive Plan,
and urged that it be a working document for the City. He reviewed the process of the Chamber
Task Force and how staff developed this draft, and further described certain provision deletions
such as the 15,000 square foot administrative review process and the Economic Development
Committee. He suggested though this should eventually become an element of the comp plan,
rather than having it go before Department of Community Affairs at this time due to their
required analysis, perhaps we can implement it by resolution or ordinance to make it a working
document at this time, give it time to be tweaked and when the next DCA review comes up
include it at that time.
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He suggested the following:
1.2 -Establish Target Industries - He recommended setting out by a separate resolution that
states the targeted industries.
2.3 -Establish Incentives - He said it is appropriate to discuss in other meetings what type of
incentives we want.
1.5 -Expedited Plan - He warned we be careful we can't deliver on it. He said Growth
Management has been slow on some plans and quicker on others, however, the buck needs to
stop at his desk. He said staff has done a lot to try to mitigate some of those issues, also noting
the market place has added to the delays as well as other governmental agency reviews which
can slow down the process. He cautioned there could be misconceptions about special
treatment for some and also noted that some specialized codes in the City's overlay districts
increase development costs and requirements.
He turned these points back to the Council and sought direction to staff on how it would like to
manipulate this document and then move forward.
Public Input
Don Wright, 1627 US 1, Sebastian, member and Chairman of the Chamber Task Force which
wrote the original plan, member of the County Economic Development Committee and Indian
River County Chamber Economic Development Division and Incentive Leader for the
Community Leaders Group, said he was disappointed with the content of the draft plan and
thought it hastily prepared. He said there should be time to work on it and get it done right. He
gave a brief history, stating when Bill Fruth spoke before us, he said the Sebastian/Vero Beach
area needed 200 new quality jobs per year, and unfortunately the economy is showing us the
downside but we need to move forward. He said based on demographics Sebastian needs to
establish 25-50 new quality jobs each year and that needs to be stated as a goal. He
distributed exhibits to Council (see attached) containing his comments on the draft, He said, as
to the Targeted Industry list in the original plan, it has become outdated, and at the EDC
meeting yesterday the focus was changed as reflected on page two of his submittal citing
moving toward clusters of industry types. He went on to cite typographical errors in the draft
plan, said the Chamber is already performing some of the activities identified in the draft, there
is a section on tourism that is important, and there should be a section on how to assist the local
business community at this time.
Walter Geiger, member of the Economic Task Force, handed out a compilation of site plan
processes (see attached) for various local agencies and compared the time it takes for each,
noting that Sebastian takes far longer due to its hearing requirements, and lack of fees for
appeals, and recommended the City consider changing some of its processes.
Mayor Gillmor asked if the time frame is actually 7-9 months for Sebastian's review as set out in
Mr. Geiger's submittal, and the Growth Management Department said it has been reduced and
they are working at further reducing the time and working closely with the Building Department.
She said they are turning minor modifications around in a two to four week period, that there are
three different levels of site plans and they are not accurately captured on this submittal.
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Helene Caseltine, Director of Economic Development for the Indian River County Chamber of
Commerce, congratulated Council for moving forward with a plan, it is a start and agreed there
is time to complete this, gave a brief presentation and asked if she can a-mail her comments on
the draft plan to the Growth Management Director, noting the County EDC had a very
productive meeting yesterday and there will be vast changes on the County's plan. She said
the Community Leaders Group will meet at Pointe West on February 27 at 8:30 p.m.
Ms. Simchick requested that Ms. Caseltine's comments to Growth Management be copied to
Council as well. The Growth Management Director said she would make sure that the City
Clerk gets them.
Graham Cox, 1213 George Street, Sebastian, Pelican Island Audubon Society, said PIAS is
trying to put together a quality of life survey and set of indicators for the County in the future to
see whether we are moving toward a sustainable community or going backwards. He said they
will put together an advisory group, conduct a series of focus group meetings, conduct the
survey based upon information from the focus groups and also talk to schools. He welcomed
the City as a partner and said they would love someone else to take it over. He said PIAS
President Richard Baker can be contacted at 388-1572 and that the Pelican Island Audubon
website describes the program. He gave his own number 388-5394 and noted he did not see
the word "sustainable" in this draft plan.
Mr. Wolff asked if the survey was going to be done across the spectrum or just with the focus
group. Mr. Cox said the focus groups would take it across the county, and then went on to
describe his work in New York on this type of program.
Mr. Wolff suggested using the Internet for their survey.
Damian Gilliams, 1623 US 1, Sebastian, asked if the Chamber of Commerce was present
tonight and Mayor Gilliams said no. Mr. Gilliams suggested adding under goals; to work hand in
hand with various Chambers in the area, help existing businesses find a way to expand and
create jobs, said he saw nothing about setting up a business liaison at the City who is familiar
with the City and its departments. Mr. Hill noted in 4.2 the liaison is referred to as "ombudsman".
Mr. Gilliams asked in 4.1 what "partner with an agency" means and Mayor Gillmor noted Indian
River State College is doing that though probably not yet at the Sebastian campus. Mr. Gilliams
cited 2.3 suggesting coordinating the Chamber, City, and College on City property for training
and Mayor Gillmor noted we have a long term lease with the Chamber.
Council Discussion
Mr. Hill said he hoped this will be a usable document and requested he begin and go through
line by line:
Mr. Hill:
1.1 -suggested reviewing the plan as needed instead of every two years.
1.2 -suggested primary and secondary industries and then when we get to 1.7 we would focus
most of our dollars on the primaries.
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The City Manager suggested the targeted industries as listed and provided by the Task Force
be adopted at this time and then we can go back and review and decide what the target
industries are ultimately going to be.
Mayor Gillmor noted we are talking about not putting this into the comp plan right away but it will
still be a usable document. He asked if there were no changes and we approve it at the next
meeting just the way it is, was there anything that would keep Council from changing it later,
and the City Manager said no. Mayor Gillmor then stated that means we can change our focus
at a later time and change it.
Mr. Hill agreed the document will not ever be perfect, and said if the plan were verbatim from
the Task Force it would have primary and secondary industries.
Mr. Hill moved to policy 1.3 noting it states at least 15-20% above existing wages and benefits
and suggested it be changed to "at least equal to the existing average wages". Ms. Coy agreed
with his recommendation.
Mr. Hill cited 1.4 which provides for a minimum of five new jobs which provide for 100% of the
average wage or better, and suggested adding "to qualify for incentives" and then asked is that
what all of these policies are for, to qualify for incentives.
Ms. Simchick agreed with "equal to" in 1.3. The Growth Management Director suggested "equal
to or above".
Discussion took place on whether we are talking about specific professions or simply the dollar
amount.
The City Manager said we need to combine policies 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5 to be the benchmarks to
receive incentives and cross check with FS to see if that is allowed.
Mr. Wolff said we don't want just any job because we want sustainability and living wages and
that it is important to clarify what we are talking about in 1.3 and 1.4.
Ms. Coy cautioned if we make this too complicated people won't qualify, that we want to stay
light and clean but we need jobs because people are desperate, noting we have set our
standards very high but it is not working for us, that we need to be very general and when the
economy changes then we can come back and start getting finicky with tax dollars.
Mr. Hill said in order to receive incentives the idea of the plan is to bring in good jobs.
Ms. Coy said we don't want to exclude something because it is not on the list and that she liked
this cluster idea, it is more generic though everything we wrote is in there.
Mr. Hill continued his review with 1.5 stating expediting processes should be done all the time
and we should have a measurable goal of maybe 30 days or some other number staff gives
Council, perhaps a "goal of completion within 30 days".
Ms. Simchick said there is a difference between an existing building and a site plan for raw land
that has to go through permitting in 30 days. Mr. Hill said other agencies do have expedited
processes, and that though he didn't know if 30 days is the correct number there should be a
number there.
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Ms. Simchick said if there were any existing Land Development regulations that we would have
to change they would have to be done under separate cover, but as long as we are not
interrupting our LDC or other intergovernmental agency time limits we could set a time limit.
Ms. Coy asked how the County deals with expediting permits and if the County gets special
treatment by DCA or the State.
Ms. Caseltine said during the EDC meeting yesterday they changed the language to the effect
of working with other agencies, and said she could a-mail it to Growth Management, that at this
point it is only suggested language and has to go before the County Commission. She noted
Florida does have an expedited permitting program for State agencies but are specific criteria
for large projects. Ms. Coy said she would appreciate whatever Ms. Caseltine could share from
the County.
The City Manager said there are circumstances we cannot plan for such as P & Z and Council
decision time frames and we do not want to interrupt work on local site plans, but proposed
coming up with a 90 day process that gets you up to the point of regulatory approval. He said it
will depend on what type of approval is needed.
Mr. Hill said it may be too complex to put a number on it.
Mr. Wolff cautioned that this is a very sensitive issue, that we live closer to one another in the
City than in the County, and would be more sensitive to develop, P & Z plays an important role
and gives a transparency to the issue, there is an ethical component involved here and people
need assurance that someone is not receiving special treatment, stating he thinks that the City
Manager has a good grasp of this, that a good balance is important to the City, however we
need to make sure that things don't sit and if we can get the process done in a 90 day period it
will make for a well planned and happy community.
The City Manager thanked him for his comments noting we are not the County and that County
staff has a lot more administrative authority to approve site plans and can get more done more
quickly, whereas the City has more regulatory board citizen review, the minus being that it takes
longer but the plus being that we make sure that the citizens are informed of what is going on
around them.
Ms. Simchick said the ombudsman is a very important position and will help so that things don't
sit.
Mayor Gillmor said this plan says we are open for business and will do what we can within the
rules to help businesses.
Mr. Hill continued his review citing 1.7, developing a marketing plan, and asked if this pertains to
the businesses we are talking about in 1.2. The City Manager said yes. Mr. Hill said he would
like to see a date certain for the marketing plan. Ms. Simchick asked if he wanted to add the
funds for it as well.
Mr. Wolff said with the $700 million citrus industry marketing budget, they haven't had a
successful campaign since Anita Bryant. He said this will require a lot of thought.
Ms. Coy noted that from the previous $100,000 Patterson-Bach plan we got nothing, and Mr.
Hill said realistically having a list of targeted industries with no marketing plan is frivolous.
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Ms. Simchick suggested this could be brought up as an agenda item, we could hit the top six
items in the next six meetings, and if we don't accept the document as the start then we're four
years later and in 90 days we can hit the top six issues separately. Mr. Hill asked if she was
saying we shouldn't put a date on here tonight.
Mayor Gillmor noted this is a framework and we are getting off track and talking about specifics,
and Mr. Hill said he is just suggesting putting in dates, and Mr. Wolff suggested a regular item
on each agenda entitled "Economic Development Matters" and tackle one or two of these things
until such time as a final document is ready for the comp plan. Ms. Simchick suggested the City
Manager bring items back under his matters. Mr. Hill said he simply wants to bring back a
document for approval that has something in it that works and has dates that they would need to
do something by.
Ms. Coy suggested we need to keep the first document very flexible and we need to be able to
make mistakes, come up with good general guidance that staff is comfortable with, noting the
document can be changed as we go along, otherwise we are not going to get going. She
suggested trying to focus on a general document that can be massaged and then refined and
sent off to DCA.
Mr. Hill again said he thought we should have a primary and secondary industry list, and
bringing back a generic document with a few tweaks here and there.
Mr. Wolff said he understood what Mr. Hill was saying, identify primary and secondary sectors,
and establish a timeline for a marketing plan for those sectors.
Mr. Hill continued with policy 3.2 and 3.3 typos, issues with misspelling of Sebastian River Area
Chamber of Commerce, 4.1 stating he believed the Chamber is already doing seminars and
stuff, in 4.2 we need to have an employee who can provide information in City Hall. Ms.
Simchick said it should say "designate", and asked if this sounded like a problem staff-wise.
The City Manager suggested utilizing the Airport Director as part-time Airport Administrative
staff and part-time Economic Development staff and set up an office in City Hall and Mr. Griffin
would split his time between the two locations. He said his staff is working to set up a volunteer
at the Airport building.
Mr. Hill said he was talking about folders printed up and ready to go if someone walks in and not
necessarily splitting full time staffer's positions.
Ms. Simchick said she thought Joe Griffin would be the perfect person to represent the City and
when he is not here, the Growth Management Director or her staff can do it.
The City Manager said, with no malice intended, that one issue folks have that the City does on
a daily basis is regulate, which puts staff in a mode of what you can and can't do, and that is not
the perception that we always want to put forward first when a company is coming in. He said
you need a face to help you through the process, and we can have a sign that says Office of
Economic Development.
Ms. Simchick reiterated Growth Management is the regulatory department and Joe is the nice
guy that brings them in and it is separated from the regulatory process.
Mr. Hill agreed and apologized and said this is a management decision not a Council decision.
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Mr. Wolff added that we have to get a packet on-line and have a simple qualification process.
Mr. Hill reiterated the correct reference to the Sebastian River Area Chamber of Commerce, and
in reference to 5.1 said we need to work with other appropriate agencies including other
Chambers and other agencies like EDC to make this thing work.
Ms. Coy said Mr. Hill covered a lot of area of concern, reiterated the average wage in 1.3 needs
to be set to something more reasonable, would like us to look at the clusters provided to us
tonight, because it is generic and gives us latitude, and establish primary and secondary
industry. She said if we keep this simple and manageable and if staff is satisfied, we can get it
off the ground and set an example for the county because we need jobs.
Mayor Gillmor agreed on the industry clusters, if we combine this cluster list in 1.2 and then
differentiate between primary and secondary that would be good, and maybe we don't need not
to be as specific as this.
Ms. Simchick asked do we want to do this in the initial document or do we want to do this during
the later reviews because we might feel differently on primary and secondary.
The City Manager explained that it was his intent to get the Task Force recommendation into
the plan and we didn't get that. He asked if Council was happy with what the Task Force
originally presented and if it is, we can decide that the Targeted Industries are exactly that. He
then he read the primary and secondary lists from the original document.
Mr. Wolff asked how warehousing/distribution would fit in the City as a primary and said he
didn't know if that makes sense. Ms. Coy said on a small scale it could.
Mr. Hill said we could leave as is and bring it back as one of our six if that makes people more
comfortable.
Mayor Gillmor said again he sees this as a skeleton type of framework that is pretty
comprehensive, that it was a great job on short notice, we owe a great deal of thanks to the
Chamber of Commerce, the committee that put this together and staff for putting it into language
we can use. He said he did not think we had to get involved in specifics at this time and once
passed, it says we are open for business and are going to go forward and actively seek
business and then we can decide what types of industry we want to target, and what is the most
economically feasible way to market industry.
Ms. Simchick thanked staff and said it put together a wonderful plan, this has been one of our
goals, happy to hear our process is getting closer to 90 days and commended staff for that.
She said at the next meeting we can bring the plan back and adopt it and in future meetings we
can fine tune targeted industries, discuss marketing, discuss incentives regarding tax
abatements referencing Florida Statutes, and once we have completed it, it may make the July
or maybe next January comprehensive plan submittal. She asked when the last comp plan
amendment is anticipated back from DCA.
The Growth Management Director responded early March.
Ms. Simchick said with the trouble with staffing issues and backlog in Growth Management she
has had complaints, and was happy that those issues will settle down and was glad to hear Mr.
Griffin can slide into the Economic Development position. She suggested the City Manager put
it on the next agenda perhaps under his matters or as an agenda item.
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The City Manager said he was not going to be able to do this for February 25th but will by March
11th under his matters as anon-action item and he will have a draft for Council to review and
then Council can report to him how they like the modifications.
Mr. Hill asked if they would rather it be added as an action item, if the City Manager goes
forward and adds the items we discussed here into the document.
The City Manager said he can put it on the agenda and Council can do what it wants.
Ms. Simchick said we can modify the language that night.
Mr. Hill said just add the document itself and we can go forward and discuss each item
individually going forward. Ms. Coy said then if we are getting bogged down we can just extend
it to the next meeting.
The City Manager reiterated the Economic Development Plan will be on the March 11th Council
meeting agenda.
Mr. Wolff said this is the topic of day in the County, and we can evaluate the merits of the
questions that are being asked and what we want to do in Sebastian, that tourism development
is an important component of the plan and unfortunately a lot of that has to do with marketing.
He said what is important is we are going to have the framework of this working document and
for people who come into City Hall it will be there and there will be a professional approach and
that is a big start. He said he would like to see more specifics, expressed concern that once it
gets into the comp plan it gets put away, so it will be incumbent on the five of them to keep it
going and that time is of the essence.
5. Being no further business, Mayor Gillmor adjourned the workshop at 7:45 p.m.
d t arc , 2009 Regular City Council Meeting.
Richard H. Gillmor, Mayor
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Sebastian Comprehensive Plan Amendments
1. Adopt a target industry list based on the Florida Industry Clusters. This list focuses on Florida's
strengths and can also be Sebastian strengths. This recommendation is also being made to the
County as of yesterday.
2. Policy i_3 amend to say equal to the average wages.
3. Policy 1.4-this should be amended to say that the basis for providing incentives is the creation
of a minimum of 5 new jabs that provide ...for both new and existing business.
4. Policy 1.5- specify 30 days.
5. Objective 3 needs to be redone and objective 3.5 should be amended to change affordable
housing to workforce housing.
6. Objective 4.1- The Chamber is already doing this so specify that the Chamber will provide...
7. Policy 4.3 & 4.4-The Sebastian River Area Chamber should be noted correctly.
8. Policy 4.5-The Sebastian River Area Chamber is already a partner with Score.
9. New elements:
1. By 2015,. Sebas#ian will increase the number of quality jabs in target industries by 325.
2. Infrastructure improvements will be made that will allow for the critical needs of industry
to be met.
3. Develop a tracking system that will make sure that conditions for incentives are met.
4. Have in place a program that allows the City Manager and others as needed to meet the
requirements for confidentiality required by most businesses.
5. Establish a fast track permitting and approval process.
6. Review land development codes and planning and zoning requirements for all areas of the
City.
7. Establish a Grant Coordinator.
8. Identify a city resource person to assist business.
9. Complete the development plan at the Sebastian Airport and address the concerns for
wetlands, scrub jays and infrastructure.
30. Sebastian will on an annual basis review the incentives available for target industry.
11. Sebastian will identify possible site locations for economic development prospects.
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competitiveness. innovative organizations in key !Fiorda industries, such as life sciences and
aerospace, find the nurturing environment here fog devzJoping smote-of-the-art technologies, while
sophisticated financial and professicsna! serv;ces firms grasper thanks to Florida's skillful workforce
and the state's business-friendly environment. Such conditions have been critical to Florida's
success in building science, techntogy and professional industry clusters and to preserving the
state's status as a key player in the innovation Ecor..omy.
Florida's strengths lie in the following key sectors:
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regional {multi-state} operations for relatively mature companes with distributed operations and
centralized Strategic and management activities. in Florida, Corporate Headquarters has been
designated as a High Impact Business Sector, eligible for certain incentives. See some of the
largest public and private ggmpanies ~tgad~uart r in Florida.
Attachr-ent 3
From: Helene Caseltine [mailto:directored@indianriverchamber.com]
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 4:35 PM
To: Rebecca Grohall
Cc: Alfred Minner; Beth Mitchell; Don Wright
Subject: Econ Dev Element -revisions
Hi Rebecca
I've attached a list of suggested revisions for the City's proposed Economic Development Element (my 2-
cents worth, anyway). I'll send along the revised fist of county targeted industries early next week (Monday?),
but please keep in mind that at this point they are only suggested -not yet adopted by EDC or the
Commission.
Text EDC is suggesting to address working with state/fed agencies: "The county shall pursue expedited
permit processing by State and Federal agencies for targeted industries to eliminate duplication and
streamline the process."
Thank you for taking the time to put this document together - as I said before, it's a start for along-term
"working document" that can be re-worked as needed.
Please give me a call/reply note if you have any questions -thanks, Rebecca
Helene Caseltine, CEcD
Director of Economic Development
Indian River County Chamber of Commerce
Vero Beach, FL 32960
Phone: 772-567-3491 x121
www.indianriverchamber.com
3/4/2009
City of Sebastian -Proposed Economic Development Element
Suggested revisions:
Preamble -rather than say "task force's members", would suggest "members of the Task
Force" and, since it was an official group with assigned responsibilities, probably should
capitalize the group's name throughout the document when referencing.
Policy 1.1-targeted industries: the revised list of county targeted industries is attached
as a separate document. Please note that this list has not yet been approved or even
proposed to the Board of County Commissioners, only suggested by the county's
Economic Development Council.
Policy 1.3 - "...increase the tax base, (comma added) and pay wages that are equal to or
above the county's current e~gaverage annual wage °„ate."
(note: the 2007 average annual wage for IRC is $35,043, per the FL Agency for
Workforce Innovation; figures are typically 2 years behind)
Policy 1.4 -this seems more like criteria than a Policy, and could be included in any
printed material or website. (unless re-worded)
Policy 1.7 - "In partnership with the Sebastian River Area Chamber of Commerce,
develop a marketing plan ..."
Who is doing the marketing -the Chamber, the City, a consultant?
Policy 2.2 - "The airport shall actively market airport industrial lots and space, and
coordinate its marketing plans with the ~e~s Sebastian River Area Chamber of
Commerce marketing plans."
Policy 2.1 and 3.3 are the same -only needs to be listed once
Policy 3.4 -change "affordable housing" to workforce housing
Policy 4.1 - "In partnership with the Sebastian River Area Chamber of Commerce,
promote the services of a~ age~y local organizations, such as SCORE (spell out) and
IRSC (spell out), to that provide technical assistance and m^~*'~'•• ^~ °~~°-~°--'•• seminars
on starting a new business."
This will eliminate the need for 4.5
Policy 6.1 - "In partnership with the Sebastian River Area Chamber of Commerce,
market eco-tourism and ... "
Policy 6.3 - In partnership with the Sebastian River Area Chamber of Commerce, the
City shall explore ... "
Policy 6.4 -spell out MPO
DRAFT - as proposed by
EDC on 2-17-09
Indian River County Proposed Industry Clusters
Indian River County's proposed targeted industries mirror those of Enterprise Florida.
They play a key role in the state's continued economic success and competitiveness.
Clean Energy industry including but not limited to:
• Solar Energy
• Biomass Energy/Biofuels
• Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
• Ocean Energy
Life Sciences industry including but not limited to:
• Biotechnology
• Medical Device Manufacturing
• Pharmaceuticals
• Health Caze
Information Technology industry including but not limited to:
• IT Products/Services
• Software Development
• Modeling/Simulation/Training
• Photonics/Lasers/Optics
• Microelectronics
• Telecommunications
Aviation/Aerospace industry including but not limited to:
• Aviation
• Avionics
• Flight Schools
Financial /Professional Services including but not limited to:
• Corporate/Regional Headquarters
• Research and Development
Manufacturing/Wazehouse/Distribution
Emerging Technologies including but not limited to:
• Materials Science
• Nanotechnology
• Marine Science
Arts, Entertainment, Recreation including but not limited to:
• Sports Facilities
Film Locations