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Kennewick, WA, Draws 100 Tech Jobs

Website: www.KennewickProspector.com

 

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Results:

1)  Stirling Technology, a high-tech firm with NASA and US military contracts, with $4M in annual payroll, used the website data in their nationwide site selection process; the new expansion headquarters opened in 2005 with approximately 100 jobs.

2)  New dental office facility resulting in 35-40 jobs and new office construction.


  • 3)  Within the first week of launch this town of 55,000 people in Southeastern Washington received a business prospect from Orange County, California.

Notable quotes:

“Within a few days of being online we were getting hits from Sioux City, Iowa, and Orange County, California.  We’re up in Southeastern Washington so that was pretty impressive to us to have people calling in from places we’ve never been, looking at sites in our community.  We’ve only been at this [process of using ZoomProspector] for a few months and we’ve already got a dental complex that’s going to bring 35 to 40 jobs. They used the ZoomProspector software to find their site.  Very certainly, it has already paid for itself in my estimation.”
–Ken Nelson, City of Kennewick, Economic Development Director

“A real estate agent in Orange County, California, found Kennewick’s website a week ago and used it to link up with Kirk Stricker, a commercial property agent for Windermere Real Estate in Kennewick.  ‘This is easy to use and is a good sales tool or our industry’ he said.”

–Tri-City Herald newspaper