Ak-Chin Industrial Park Board on YouTube: Grow Your Business in the Ak-Chin Indian Community
Charles L. Carlyle, a member and business leader on the Ak-Chin Indian Community in Arizona, offers more advice for those looking to explore economic opportunities in Indian Country:
When looking for new sites, food processing facilities typically want to be in operation in six to 12 months. To reduce the time involved, companies often limit their search to sites with existing buildings that can be retrofitted, but may be less than ideal in the long term. Concentrating a site search only on conventional locations may lead companies to overlook the truly unique advantages offered by Native American reservations. Many federally-recognized tribes can offer unparalleled tax advantages, incentives, and project fast-tracking abilities that most states, counties and municipalities simply cannot. Any hesitancy may come from a lack of understanding of how reservations work. Still, not all tribes operate the same way or offer the same infrastructure.Read More:
Charles L. Carlyle: The advantages of locating a commercial building on Native American land (The Phoenix Business Journal 8/23)
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