2020 Buffalo County Population 50,084
Associated Press – 2nd least economically stressed county in the US (Dec 2010)
Educated Workforce
- University of Nebraska at Kearney representing approx. 6,000 students
- Over 600 International students from over 50 different countries
- The University campus offers hands-on Cisco, Avaya, web design\security plus CSIS programs
- 25-county Central Community College offers 33 career\technical programs
- Ability to offer business specific customized curriculum (both University and CCC)
- Underutilized University workforce with 10,000 University alumni working in Buffalo County
Skilled Vendors
- Local offices for Siemens, Johnson Controls, and Cummins Central Power (Cummins, Kohler, Generac, Onan)
- Pramac International – Italian generator company with manufacturing in Kearney
- IBM Field Service Engineer in Kearney for Buckle Data Center – AS400\RISC\X-Series\Sun\HP\XIV
- Intellicom – Cisco Certified engineers, Microsoft Gold Partner, HP Partner
- Fronter Communications – Nortel\Avaya, Calix, Cisco, Electro-Mechanical Technicians
- Xpanxion – Software programming and quality assurance firm with over 70 local programmer
- Many other large companies with national presence (Eaton, Cabela’s, Buckle, etc…)
Property is located outside city limits:
- State sales tax rate 5.5%
- Property tax 2% (could be refunded via Nebraska Advantage)
- No annexation requirement which eliminates franchise and local option sales tax (city services still provided)
- County Assessor confirmed buildings would be taxed at warehouse value
Access
- One daily 1-hour inbound and 1-hour outbound flights to Denver International Airport | Jet Service via United Airlines
- Neighboring community offers multiple daily flights direct to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport
- Airport 1.1 miles from site and the site is outside of flight path
- Rail 1.6 miles from site
- 5 miles from Interstate 80
Healthy community - 22 miles of hike and bike trails interconnect the community