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Aug 03
2010
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Read the media release here.
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Jun 24
2010
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The Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce has released a new online map with Chambers members located on the downtown square. The online map is an interactive tool to help orient community visitors to downtown Chamber member businesses.
You'll find contact and product description information as well as operating hours and street views for each Chamber member business listed when available. This is just another great example of why Chamber membership pays!
Not located on the square? Still want to have your business show up or correctly listed in Google Search or Google Maps? Check out the Chamber blog, Introducing Google Places.
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Jun 24
2010
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Introducing Google PlacesPosted by Sam Busch |
If you're a local business owner and you want to take control of the information Google has or doesn't have listed about your business on Google Search and Google Maps, then Google Places can help you do just that. For simple and easy help getting started with Google Places and other useful tips click here.
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Apr 12
2010
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Located at 1801 West Stone Ave, Fairfield, IA 52556 is and available for sale 237,000 sf. industrial facility that's 100% leased on a 27 acres lot. The building has 20,000 sf. of office space with ample parking and an outside yard. The listing brochure is available here.
Other facility features include:
• 99% sprinklered (wet)
• 16'-25'clear ceiling height
• Column spacing: 30' x 49'
• 5 dock-high and 7 grade-level doors
• Tilt-up concrete construction with 6" reinforced concrete floors
• Heavy Power: 12.5 KV, 3 12.5 KV/480/227 V, 1500 KVA transformers
The facility is conveniently located just 1 mile north of the new four lane highway US34 that provides more direct access to I-35. Another four lane highway US218 is 20 miles west and to south 75 miles is located I-80. The Local airport has a 5,400' runway, with commercial and air freight service offered at the Eastern Iowa Airport 90 miles from Fairfield.
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Apr 08
2010
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Portions excerpted from an article appearing in the Fairfield Ledger.
Agri-Industrial Plastics Company has been awarded $36,000 and tax benefits to help expand, create and retain jobs. The award was approved by the Iowa Department of Economic Development Board and will create in Fairfield, five new jobs and retain seven jobs. The tax benefits were made from the Enterprise Zone program. A resolution supporting Agri-Industrial Plastics’ Enterprise Zone Application was approved in February, by the Jefferson County Enterprise Zone Commission.
Agri-Industrial Plastics’ request was for funding a machinery and equipment project. The project will add two machines totaling $8 million and create 16 new jobs. State Rep. Curt Hanson of Fairfield said, “I’m pleased the state is participating with us to create good-paying jobs in our community”. “Small businesses are the backbone of our economy, and it’s essential that we provide support and assistance to help small businesses across Iowa grow.”
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Dec 04
2009
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Jul 27
2009
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Fairfield-based software technology company Let's Order Online, Inc. has been awarded $200,000 in regional and state incentives to help grow its workforce by at least 10 employees over the next 36 months. Let's Order Online markets a proprietary online customer service and ordering software package to restaurants across the country.
The Let's Order Online incentive package includes $125,000 in funding from the Entrepreneurial Ventures Assistance [EVA] program administered by the Iowa Department of Economic Development. A $75,000 low-interest loan from Regional Economic Development Investments, Inc. program rounded out the package.
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Jul 08
2009
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Agri-Industrial Plastics Company (AIP) will be accepting another 6-layer fuel tank machine in early August to compliment their current machine, doubling the production capacity of fuel tanks for ATV, snowmobile, watercraft, golf cart, lawn & garden and the small to medium sized engine market.
AIP began manufacturing non automotive multilayer fuel tanks in 2005 to meet the more stringent permeation requirements enforced by the EPA in the United States. Since going down this path, their business has now required additional equipment to meet greater demand.
Read the media release here.
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May 21
2009
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
BUSINESS 34 IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS
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Mar 12
2009
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Small Towns, Big Ideas is the result of an intensive, yearlong effort to identify and document the stories of small towns that are surviving -- and, in some cases, thriving -- as hubs of civic and economic activity. The Small Towns, Big Ideas project began in mid-2006, when the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Government partnered with the North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center to identify small towns that were implementing successful or innovative approaches to community economic development.
Fairfield, Iowa was one of the communities selected because of our unique approach to Entrepreneurship and Downtown development/revitalization. A copy of the Fairfield case study can be downloaded by clicking here. To see what other progressive small towns like ours are doing to improve their community download the entire publication by clicking here.
The publication includes stories about planning and implementing economic development strategies in 45 small towns with populations of fewer than 10,000 residents. Case studies also describe a range of strategies for building local capacity for economic development, including innovative organizational structures, partnerships, leadership development and finance. Most case studies include discussion of more than one strategy.