City of Bend, Oregon Economic Development, 2 Jan 2013

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From YouTube: Business is Growing In Bend

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BendBroadband recently opened a new cloud data center, serving local and Northwest clients, to expand their business. Ocean Equipment relocated here from Newport Beach, CA, and City Manager Eric King tells us how it happened.

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Why do business in bands listed two local companies tell you why it's a great place to do business.

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When it, when you look at economic development unit, infrastructure is so important. Water sewer.

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Roads, good schools, another key important piece of that is your foot fiber.

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Technology and ben broadband is a great example of yell cutting edge technology.

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Attracting businesses to this area.

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Then brought them as a fifty-year-old company, where second-generation family.

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Business we operate, three companies here in central oregon can drop and then.

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Brought them home solo media, then broadband operates about two thousand miles of fiber and.

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Hybrid fiber collapsed infrastructure throughout the region.

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So we have a very expensive fibre network to serve the needs of the.

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Customers around the area you've always wanted to primary reasons. The first was our only.

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To expand and and have additional capability for our company.

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In the second, as we had an anchor institution here, which would say, charles.

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Hospital that needed a facility of this caliber for medical records.

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Uh... co location facility by more than a datacenter.

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We have certifications here that are unusual n.

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The pacific northwest, once we have the plan for the vault in hand, we met with the city of band and echo and together those two organizations, really help to facilitate.

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V building, above all, it was an existing facility which he did a lot of.

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Remodeling to make it to transform it into the data some of it is today.

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He said he had been worked very closely with edco and helping, but broadband slight, the ball so determining what type of impact.

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Uh... fees are needed, permitting process that kind of thing to ensure that it was.

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A smooth process when we got moving with the idea on the ball we met with that.

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Come in the city of bandana to organizations worked hand-in-glove with.

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Pen drive down to make sure that the facility to get the upgrades on the.

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Schedule if needed, edco in the city of been really complement each other and then it goes.

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Off in hoping to recruit businesses once they're here at the business advocate.

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Hopes than through the city process, so it's a really nice symbiotic.

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Relationship the city of them was very flexible on working with them brought down on a.

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Short timetable: uh.... The planning department particular works very closely with us to make sure.

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That they were on site when we needed them uh.... I was very impressed with their with their proactive nature.

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For most companies, data is at the core of their business.

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And most companies are experts and managing that data.

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Seller facility, like the then brought them home, provides a resource for.

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Companies inside and outside the region.

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Ben broadband really provides the needed infrastructure for small business.

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Community in and it provides an opportunity for a lot of businesses to store their date and.

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That's where the with the future of technology is to to use for the cloud.

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Computing environment.

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Bos, equipment isn't importer, a distributor and a manufacturer.

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We specialize in voting support the ring, let ron x industry we manufactured now.

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Quite instrument housings right here.

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We also import products from asia and europe in in distributed through the.

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U_S_ products we manufacture here we distribute about twenty-five countries,.

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Lucien products is a good examples of the services offered by the business advocate where we couldn't work with the business and are planning department to determine.

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What processes are needed, and, and and in this case there's very few and and that.

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Those were in tears that can be provided in a short amount of time.

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Well, I decided to move the business here at the end, you have to look at a lot of a statistics: edco provided both on the.

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Website, as well as on their spiral, binder you're really showed that the cost of doing business here in bend. I was able to really reduce my overhead, and it just it. Just was the right thing to do, for a business at that time depend.

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Community is very good about their networking. I've managed to meet good.

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People who moved their business here in kenya to really the confidence to move my business well when he came to getting uh... employees here from a business and then actually relocated. Nobody had all. I.

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Came up here in a harder five new people have plans to hire about two more next.

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Year and I was there was easy to find people uh... through my networking that edco.

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Provided by had other business owners makes recommendations are also just put.

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Ads out there in craigslist accounts, really good people, but I like about the people here and then they're all committed to living in bend and providing for their families, and it's just a great quality of life.

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The value of the business advocate program is to really help those small.

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Startup businesses that are moving to bend uh... help them through the land use, permitting process building permits.

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And just to navigate the economic landscape, you're dead.

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Well, when it came to finding a location, my business uh..., we selected a building.

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Here in town, ten thousand-square-foot building- and we want to make sure the use of proper four.

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Operated my business here edco arranged a meeting with the city planner. We went.

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Down to the city office within a half an hour, we have approval.

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Well, after operating for about a half a year here in band t are certainly.

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Recommend other businesses to take a hard look at move into band. So it's been.

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Really great are the people we found here in band. It's really been a great.

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Place to operate out of people have a great quality of life.

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Has just been really enjoyable living here.