CAPE CORAL, Fla.- A big-name company could make its move to Cape Coral, bringing with it more than 200 jobs. But that big name is a big mystery.
The name of this company is being kept tightly under wraps but WINK News does know they are eyeballing about ten acres of property in the Cape. This is not the only company the city is wooing. We're told, they're talking with eleven others as well.
"This great thing is right now, the environment is really changing!" It's an environment Cape Coral's Economic Development Director Dana Brunett says is ripe with possibility.
"We're really starting to see a positive surge in interest and also - we're starting to see things settle down on the housing market," he said.
For the past two months, he says, the city has been talking with a company about expanding to a 100,000 square foot manufacturing plant somewhere in the Cape.
"It's the type of business that we want to support in Cape Coral, clean industries, high paying jobs, good neighbors," he said.
The city is also working on eleven separate recruiting projects. Combined they could bring almost 2,000 jobs, and more than $45 million in new investments.
"These's been a lot of interest very recently in exsisting commercial space. We're trying to make sure they have access to commercial brokers and understand where those properties are," he said.
He says a big pull for prospective companies is Cape Coral's new VA Clinic, which he says could open in June.
Along with getting new companies to the Cape he tells us it's also important to focus on businesses already here. At least nine are discussing expansion plans, and with that comes the possibility for more jobs.
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