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Tim Burg, CEcD
Economic Developer
tburg@shawneeforward.com
(405) 273-6092
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Benefits of Investing in Shawnee
- Location: Within 8 hours of Houston, Memphis, Kansas City, St. Louis, and Albuquerque
- Workforce
- Opportunity Zones
- New Market Tax Credits
Shell Building for Sale
Shell Building Detail
- 50,000 sqft with 30' minimum interior clearing
- Building can be purchased "as is" for $1,750,000.00
- Building can be finished out to the client's specifications, with those costs being added to the final sales amount
- Expandable to 150,000+ sqft without variance
- Located on 8.14 acres of land, zoned I-2 (Medium Industrial)
- Shawnee Municipal Authority water with 8" water line with 40/55 psi
- Shawnee Municipal Authority sewer with 8" gravity line in place
- ONG Natural Gas - 4" PE line with 40 PSIG at site
- OG&E Electric - 2.5 MVA available at site, 1/2 mile to a 138 KV line
- 66'8" x 50' interior column spacing
- Building's east elevation constructed at dock height
- Building's west elevation designed/constructed for expandability
- UL-90 roof rating
- 4" insulation in all walls and roof
- Interior soils stabilized for floor installation
- One 8' x 10' dock door and one 14' x 14' drive-in door installed
- Building design allows for more OHD installations
- Parking, driveways, and approaches designed and rough graded
- Current site design allows for 50 parking spaces, with more allowable
- Project designed to reduce permitting and finish out construction time
- Located within a Federal Opportunity Zone and a New Market Tax Credit Area
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Location
- 30 minutes to Tinker Air Force Base
- 37 Minutes to downtown Oklahoma City
- 45 Minutes to WIll Rogers World Airport
- 99 Minutes to the Port of Catoosa
- Located adjacent to major Shawnee manufacturing facilities
- Low tax rate: $91.86 per $1,000.00 assessed value
- Population of over 400,000 within 30 miles of site
- Population of over 1.5 million within the Greater OKC Region
Workforce
- Two Career Tech campuses focused on skills training fed from over 30 K-12 schools in a 10-county area
- One Career Tech campus focused on Aerospace/Aviation
- Two Liberal Arts Universities located in the community
List of Shawnee Manufacturers
Our community has been home to manufacturing businesses and industry for more than 110 years.
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- George Fischer
- Shawnee Tubing Industries
- Eaton
- Shawnee Milling
- Jindal Films
- TDK
- Baker Hughes / GE
- United Dynamics
- Indaco
- Old Castle
- Unit Liner
- Global Production Solutions
- Dickson Industries
- Industrial Axle
- Mills Machine
- Norwesco
- GT Engineering
- Shawnee Fabricators
- Roundhouse Overalls
- Universal Forest Products
Infrastructure
The Shawnee Regional Airport (KSNL) in a general aviation facility owned by the city near the heart of Shawnee and within a few miles of I-40. In 2011 the airport opened a new terminal building. The 4,000 sq ft (370 m2) building has a conference room and observation deck.
Will Rogers World Airport is an American passenger airport in Oklahoma City located about 6 miles (8 km) Southwest of downtown Oklahoma City. It is a civil-military airport on 8,081 acres (3,270 ha) of land. Will Rogers has non-stop flights throughout the U.S.
Workforce
Workforce
- Shawnee Public Schools
- Oklahoma Baptist University
- Tier One US Navy Nuclear Program School
- 95% Placement Rate of their Pre-Med Students
- Gordon Cooper Technology Center
- Pulls students from thirty K-12 schools in a 10-county region
- 94% Placement Rate of Program Graduates
- Eastern Oklahoma County Technology Center