Strategic Advantages

The Youngstown-Warren area offers many advantages to locating your business here.

• Access to Markets and Supply Chain
  • 6.3 million people
  • 8,700 manufacturing plants
  • 9,100 wholesale/distribution centers
  • 14 Fortune 500 company world headquarters
• A low cost of doing business
• An available workforce
• Available training
  • Abundance of universities
  • Apprenticeship programs
  • Workforce assistance
• Abundant infrastructure
  • Plentiful water, gas and electric
  • Two Class I rail providers and many shortlines
  • 7 water ports with access to both Lake Erie and Ohio River*
  • 5 airports including 2 international*
  • 2 major interstates and 5 state-route highways

* within a 75-mile radius.