Advantages of location in the East Texas Foreign Trade Zone
Location, location, location
Easy and quick access to airport, minus the congestion of flying/operating at larger, busier facilities
10,000ft x 150ft wide ILS runway adjacent to 300 acre industrial airpark and Foreign Trade Zone – the airport’s pro-business FAA Control Tower with radar traffic control –help travelers avoid the hassles of operating in Class B airspace and make operating in-and-out of the airport efficient and trouble-free
New, modern terminal facilities and full aircraft turn-around servicing available
Cost-effective landing fees – $0.30/1,000lb. vs DFW’s $1.57-$2.15/1,000lb fee
Business owners will find Gregg County’s pro-business perspectives easy to work with when it comes to starting-up a new business in the airport’s 300 acre Industrial Airpark and Foreign Trade Zone
Airpark commercial sites are adaptable to a wide range of domestic and international business uses – including light manufacturing, corporate offices, warehousing/distribution operations, air cargo and heavy airlift operations, Foreign Trade Zone operations, and freight forwarding
The management of the airport and airpark are skilled, successful business persons ready to assist companies to locate in the airpark. This group is skilled at determining the needs of a potential tenant and structuring a package of the airport’s assets to address those needs
Businesses locating here may qualify for exemptions from property taxes on buildings, machinery, equipment, inventories and other improvements for up to ten (10) years
Various job training programs available, such as the Texas’ Smart Jobs program, pays for training employees in areas of production improvement, supervisory skills, on-the-job training and computer skills
Longview has a lot to offer
Airpark located adjacent to airport
Bordered by a four-lane state highway with turn-outs
Nearby I-20 interstate highway, rail service by three railroad systems, motor freight service by fourteen national truck lines and the new Canada/USA/Mexico NAFTA inter-country highway business corridor
Airpark situated 120 miles east of Dallas and 60 miles west of the Port of Shreveport on I-20
Regional population is 208,720 persons; City of Longview population is 75,150 persons with a major industrial/manufacturing base and eleven (11) colleges and universities within a sixty mile radius of Longview
Quality Of Life
Longview Symphony Orchestra
Longview Museum of Fine Arts
Longview Ballet Theatre
Longview Opera Company
Longview Community Theatre
Quality hospitals, churches, schools
25 lakes within 75 miles of Longview
Where We Are
East Texas Regional Airport 269 Terminal Circle Longview, Texas 75603
903-643-3031