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While as much as 70 percent of the Grand Pennyroyal Industrial Site – 948-
Strand workforce is employed in some acre with barge access and rail
aspect of the tourism industry, a wealth of possible, less than five miles from the
S ALT & INDIGO all area businesses. sites is available at www.seegeorgetown.com/
Port of Georgetown.
educational opportunities ensure that a ready
Pawleys Island Business Park – 14 acres
and talented pool of employees is available to
in Georgetown County’s Pawleys Island.
Higher education facilities that serve
Information on Georgetown County
Georgetown County residents include Coastal
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Carolina University, Horry Georgetown
buildings-land.
Technical College, the Pittsburgh Institute of
advanced training programs in manufacturing,
LOCATION/ Airport adjacent to the business and Aeronautics and others. These facilities offer TOP
engineering, machine operations and more.
TRANSPORTATION industrial park and Andrews Airport for the SC Technical College System has Employers in
Further fueling the labor force,
private aircraft.
Georgetown County’s ideal location
Business & Industry waters and charming communities, but also second largest container port on the East providing well-trained employees to qualifying Georgetown County
Charleston, 60 miles south, is the
not only attracts visitors to its coastal
powered readySC™ for more than 50 years,
attracts a plethora of industries that want
Coast and is easily accessible via U.S. 17.
companies that invest in South Carolina.
to take advantage of the easy access found
Businesses in the area also have access to
1. 3V Inc.
A comprehensive and customized process,
here to all modes of transportation.
the ports at Wilmington, N.C. (110 miles)
2. Agru/America, Inc.
readySC™ includes recruiting, screening and
Georgetown County is in the northeast
and Savannah, Ga. (165 miles).
corner of coastal South Carolina, between
4. City of Georgetown
to fit a company’s needs.
the port cities of Charleston, S.C., and
5. County of Georgetown
In addition to the training opportunities,
Wilmington, N.C., and halfway between Businesses that rely on training, tailoring guidelines and curriculum 3. Brookgreen Gardens
New York and Miami, Fla. Georgetown importing raw materials and/or companies in Georgetown County can profit 6. Dining Concepts Group, LLC
County enjoys convenient access to exporting their finished products from the stability created by South Carolina 7. Food Lion, LLC
Interstates 95 and 20, U.S. Highway 17, the find Georgetown to be ideally being a right-to-work state, with the lowest 8. Founders National Golf, LLC
Myrtle Beach International Airport, and percentage of unions in the country. 9. Georgetown County School System
the Port of Georgetown, South Carolina’s situated near the ports that 10. Georgetown Physician Services, LLC
dedicated breakbulk and bulk cargo port. facilitate those trade activities. BUSINESS PARKS 11. International Paper
Myrtle Beach International Airport
Sites currently inviting new manufacturers 12. Litchfield Group, LLC
offers daily non-stop flights to New York, and businesses include: 13. New Penn Financial, LLC
Chicago, Detroit, and dozens of other WORKFORCE & Coastal Tech Park – Just seven 14. Palmetto Prince George Operating, LLC
cities. Thousands of people pass through its TRAINING 15. Safe Rack, LLC
terminals each day, traveling to destinations The Grand Strand’s economy runs miles from Georgetown, this 400-acre 16. Santee Cooper SC Public Service Authority
around the world. Sixty miles to the off the fuel of 150,000 in the labor force. park is a Shovel Ready SC State Certified 17. Tidelands Health
south is Charleston International Airport, In Georgetown County, approximately Industrial Site situated along the
offering a full schedule of daily commercial 10,000 residents work in the county, and Highway 17 corridor, targeting aerospace 18. Waccamaw Management, LLC
flights, along with U.S. Customs services another 10,000 commute from surrounding and advanced manufacturing. 19. Wal-Mart Associates, Inc.
and protected Foreign Trade Zone areas. counties – mainly Horry – to work. Another Georgetown County Business Center – 20. YMCA of Coastal Carolina
Georgetown County also offers two local 12,500 workers live in Georgetown County This county-owned park offers more
FBO-served airports, Georgetown County but commute to work outside the county. than 400 acres zoned heavy industrial. Source: S.C. Department of Employment & Workforce – 2018
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