At a glance
| Booth | S7330 |
| Country | US |
| Website | www.orlando.org |
Company profile
Orlando Economic Partnership is an economic and community development organization that advances Broad-based Prosperity®, brings together leaders, industries, and ideas to expand opportunities and drive investment, and works at the intersection of business, government, and the independent sector. Through partnerships, Orlando Economic Partnership works to grow the economy, attract companies that create new jobs, drive investment, improve competitiveness, and strengthen regional leadership, with a vision for Orlando to become the next global creative capital. Orlando Economic Partnership defines Broad-based Prosperity® as a region where residents can live meaningful lives and equal access to resources and pathways to success creates opportunities for all, with the goal of creating a region bound only by imagination. Orlando Economic Partnership spearheads Orlando 2045: Igniting Orlando's Potential, a 20-year collaborative roadmap intended to transform the Orlando region into a global creative capital and a world-class hub for education, business, and entertainment within the next two decades. Orlando Economic Partnership describes a region that led the nation in job creation for four consecutive years before the pandemic, expanded its strongest industries, developed an emerging business-services and technology sector, and attracted global brands for expansions and relocations while taking the Unbelievably Real™ Orlando story to a global audience.
Exhibits
Orlando Economic Partnership provides complimentary and confidential services to businesses locating or expanding in the Orlando area, with business-development experts assisting from site-location analysis and confidential, objective location evaluation through evaluation of financial assistance, while serving as the region's single point of contact for business location or expansion. Orlando Economic Partnership tracks current real-estate availability and helps companies narrow site choices for uses ranging from manufacturing operations to biotech research facilities, while providing market information on demographics, labor availability, transportation, taxes, cost-of-living comparisons, education, and other business factors. Orlando Economic Partnership facilitates introductions to key local and state government, education, and private-sector partners; helps companies evaluate financial incentives, grants, industrial development revenue bonds, and other support; coordinates employee recruitment and training with educational institutions, CareerSource Central Florida, and staffing agencies; and, through the Orlando Film Commission, supports permitting, location scouting, crews, and production services. For international companies expanding into the United States, Orlando Economic Partnership offers global business assistance, market intelligence, and site-selection services. Orlando Economic Partnership also works to strengthen Orlando's economy, amplify Orlando's story, empower community leaders, champion regional priorities, and build a brilliant region, while offering the nation's largest and longest-running leadership program and initiatives that prepare the next generation of talent for the future of work so regional leaders can grow, connect, and retain. Through its semiconductor-development work, Orlando Economic Partnership presents the Orlando region as a U.S. semiconductor destination focused on advanced packaging, high-mix systems, and precision technologies that move chips from research into real-world deployment, supported by an integrated innovation ecosystem and development-ready infrastructure at NeoCity for commercial and government-aligned applications, including defense, aerospace, medical, and dual-use markets. Orlando Economic Partnership highlights $1B+ in the semiconductor ecosystem and 4,500+ semiconductor-related annual graduates within 100 miles, and describes the region as emphasizing advanced packaging, precision technology, high-mix systems, and performance in complex operating environments rather than mass production. Orlando Economic Partnership presents NeoCity as a master-planned semiconductor and innovation campus with development-ready and pad-ready sites, specialized infrastructure, accelerated paths to operation, 179 undeveloped plots, access to a major sensor-development and research fabrication facility, Class A office space, collaboration through BRIDG, and Opportunity Zone designation in Osceola County. For NeoCity, Orlando Economic Partnership identifies 500 acres of developable land, County-owned land with no debt and favorable terms, Employment Commercial zoning, 20,000 square feet of available Class A office space, 200 megawatts of electric capacity, 1.9 million gallons per day of water capacity, 1.6 MGD of wastewater capacity, and a high-bandwidth, low-latency 10 Gbps+ fiber-optic network. Orlando Economic Partnership describes NeoCity as less than one mile from the Florida Turnpike, 20 minutes from Orlando International Airport, 14 minutes from Kissimmee Gateway Airport, 50 minutes from Orlando Sanford International Airport, 5 minutes from SunRail/Amtrak Kissimmee Station, 15 minutes from SunRail/Amtrak Tupperware station, 60 minutes from Port Canaveral, 90 minutes from Port Tampa Bay, and 30 minutes from the University of Central Florida, with additional highway access to SR-417, I-4, and U.S. Highway 441. Orlando Economic Partnership provides NeoCity-area demographic context at 50-, 100-, and 200-mile radii, respectively listing populations of 6,575,419, 10,054,741, and 19,482,552; households of 2,848,612, 4,640,123, and 8,761,777; median household incomes of $56,091, $55,059, and $56,439; businesses of 197,838, 310,589, and 669,982; and employees of 2,910,982, 4,228,258, and 8,506,434. Orlando Economic Partnership highlights a STEM talent pipeline around NeoCity that includes the University of Central Florida, Valencia College, Florida Polytechnic University, and Florida Tech; UpSkill Osceola's employer-and-educator skills-based career pathways for the semiconductor industry; over 550,000+ higher-education students within two driving hours; Valencia College's Osceola campus less than five minutes away; and the Advanced Manufacturing Training Center's work on manufacturing skills from CNC machining to welding. Orlando Economic Partnership also cites 500K+ higher-education students within 100 miles of Orlando using Lightcast (IPEDS), 2023; nine international airports within 100 miles; a No. 1 ranking for fastest-growing population among major U.S. regions from U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates, 2024; and a No. 5 U.S. tax-climate ranking from the Tax Foundation, 2026, while stating that local talent costs are on average lower than competing MSAs. Orlando Economic Partnership, in partnership with the Florida High Tech Corridor, is building an internationally recognized semiconductor industry cluster and works with organizations to become cluster members, using community synergies, regional strengths, and a global network to address Central Florida business needs; the cluster centers on NeoCity and the Center for NeoVation and uses a Cluster Management Organization to foster collaboration among industry, academia, and government. Orlando Economic Partnership describes public and private semiconductor investment that includes an initial $270 million Osceola County investment in NeoCity physical infrastructure, the Center for NeoVation, utilities, an office building, NeoCity Academy, roads, and semiconductor tools and equipment; $31 million in State of Florida appropriations since 2016, including $28 million from 2016 to 2019 and a $2.9 million appropriation for BRIDG design-center equipment; and $19.3 million from the U.S. Department of Defense Cornerstone tied to making imec silicon-interposer technology available to the U.S. industrial base. Additional investments identified by Orlando Economic Partnership include $7.6 million from the Air Force Research Lab for a Secure Digital Twin manufacturing architecture; $50.8 million for EDA Build Back Better Regional Challenge Phase II in 2022 to establish initial operational capacity across six component projects; and $2.7 million for DARPA Next Generation Microelectronics Manufacturing Phase 0 to develop a plan for a pilot 3DHI manufacturing center. Orlando Economic Partnership further identifies a $289 million U.S. Department of Defense Cornerstone effort covering research across seven elements of advanced semiconductor packaging and related capital investment; $20.7 million from Osceola County in 2022 and 2023 to provide graduating high-school seniors with scholarships for local community college or trade school; and an NSF investment with around $15 million for the first two years and potential funding of $160 million over the next decade for workforce, higher education, next-generation R&D, and commercialization structures. Orlando Economic Partnership describes the Center for NeoVation as a manufacturing research center used by imec and operated by SkyWater Technologies, with a Class 100 main cleanroom, a Class 10,000 cleanroom, a versatile 200mm microelectronics facility with a sub-fab, ultra-pure and reverse-osmosis water capabilities, an on-site Acid Waste Neutralization system, and a central utility plant. Orlando Economic Partnership identifies imec as a core research partner of the Florida Semiconductor Engine working at NeoCity on cryogenic superconductive digital computing, advanced RF technologies, and advanced packaging, and identifies SkyWater Technologies as the fabrication-facility operator whose agreement with Osceola County runs through 2044 年 10 月. Orlando Economic Partnership describes the Florida Semiconductor Engine, launched in 2024 and backed by the National Science Foundation, as a collaborative platform for advanced semiconductor-packaging commercialization that connects industry, academia, and government through shared research, applied engineering, translation-focused development, workforce readiness, and a shorter path from concept to deployment. Orlando Economic Partnership's semiconductor materials identify BRIDG's 200mm wafer-fab capabilities and technology-commercialization role, the Florida Semiconductor Institute's semiconductor coordination and lab-to-fab mission, and a broad cluster-member network that includes AAA Engineering & Test Lab, AIVault, CareerSource Central Florida, Chronos Photonics, Edmund Optics, Gigantor Technologies, Inc., IC2, imec, L3Harris Technologies, Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems (RMS), Mattrix Technologies, Micross Components, Inc., Modelithics, Inc, Multicore Technologies, NanoSpective, Inc., NOETRONIS, nTessimal, Phononic MEMS Inc, PICAdavanced US LLC, Plug and Play, QuantumSilicon Clocks LLC, Rogue Valley Microdevices, Inc., Silicon Assurance, Sky Water Technology, Synopsys, Inc, University of Central Florida, Valencia College, and Vortex Aerospace Design & Labs, Inc., among other listed organizations. Orlando Economic Partnership presents NeoCity as a district designed for collaboration and for technologies ranging from smart sensors and photonics to software applications and science and engineering process improvements, with planned assets that include a sustainable water-management system with an urban farm, recreational parks, a central plaza, NeoCity Academy, and other complete infrastructure elements, and it provides an interactive tool for searching available Orlando MSA properties and creating customized demographic reports.
Capabilities and products
- site-location analysis for business relocation and expansion
- financial-assistance evaluation for businesses
- confidential business project management assistance
- business site-selection assistance
- in-depth market data for businesses
- introductions to government, education and private partners
- global business assistance for international companies
- evaluation of corporate incentives, grants, and bonds
- workforce recruitment and training assistance
- filming permitting, location scouting and production support