WLKIZ Advantages

Advantages to KIZ Clients

• Personal coaching, support and project management from start to finish
• Links to useful resources at appropriate times
• Access to college research facilities, faculty, and students to further develop your innovative ideas and goals
• Project grant money, internship funding, service discounts, and access to additional funding sources, services, and incentives for qualified KIZ clients
• Training and networking opportunities
  

Advantages to Locating in the “Zone”

• Available incubator and manufacturing space. Featured spaces include:
  
• Lycoming Launchpad, 136 Catawissa Ave. (off of Reach Rd.), Williamsport
• Trimtex Complex, Park Ave., Williamsport
  
• State KIZ tax credits for business startups and companies in business less than 8 years
• Priority status in state funding and to receive additional services
• Proximity to other entrepreneurs and start-up companies like you
  
• PLUS all the additional benefits to being a KIZ Client

Advantages to Lycoming County

• Encouraging creativity, entrepreneurialism, and business start-ups
  
• Providing access to our institutional partners, Lycoming College and Pennsylvania College of Technology, and their faculty and students
• Utilizing all key partners and their core services and capabilities
• Focusing on our area's strength in manufacturing and technology
  
• Helping to build our local community and economy – job creation and retention, new company startups, business growth, etc.