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LOCAL INCENTIVES: The City offers a number of incentives and funds specific services to assist business retention, expansion, relocation and start-up in Chico.
Foreign Trade Zone
Location: 1,500 acres within Chico Municipal Airport Region
Audience: Import/export distribution businesses within the zone
Details: Allows importers and exporters to defer, reduce, or eliminate US Customs duties or excise taxes; duty is not paid until goods are withdrawn from the foreign trade zone for domestic sale in the US.
Contact: nkelly@ci.chico.ca.us
Recycled Market Development Zone
Location: Chico
Audience: Recycling based businesses or businesses that use recycled materials located in the zone
Details: Provides low interest loans and business assistance
Chico/Northern Butte County Recycling Market Development Zone
Contact: lherman@ci.chico.ca.us
Commercial Façade Improvement Loans
Location: Within redevelopment project areas (PDF 780KB)
Audience: Commercial buildings
Details: Low interest loans to rehabilitate, upgrade and improve the external appearance of commercial building facades within the redevelopment project areas. Loan application (PDF 2.3MB)
Contact: nkelly@ci.chico.ca.us
Capital Access Loans
Location: Within City limits
Audience: Businesses in existence for greater than two years
Details: Loans generally between $25,000 and $75,000; administered through 3Core.
Contact: mnemanic@3coreedc.org
Redevelopment
Location: Within the redevelopment project areas
Audience: Businesses within the Chico redevelopment project areas
Details: Potential to coordinate planned public improvements with private development.
Contact: nkelly@ci.chico.ca.us
Chico Redevelopment
Early and Free Project Review Assistance
Location: Within City limits
Audience: Businesses expanding, starting, relocating within City limits
Details: Businesses and builders may have their projects reviewed and guidance given by various City officials (Building, Planning, Fire, Engineering, Economic Development, etc.) to assist the project through the regulatory process.
Contact: jmorley@ci.chico.ca.us Development Review Committee
Priority Permitting
Location: Within City limits
Audience: Industrial businesses
Details: Policy allows for prioritizing industrial/manufacturing permit process that generate new and/or expanded job opportunities.
Butte Community Employment Center
Location: Businesses in Butte County
Audience: Employers needing assistance with recruitment and training.
Details: A one-stop service in Chico provides hiring and training services, labor market information, and direct business assistance.
Contact: Butte County One Stop in Chico
Talent Recruitment and Retention Services
Location: Within City limits
Audience: Base level (export) employers
Details: Assistance in talent development, retention and attraction through collaboration with industry, higher education, workforce development service providers, local government and Chico Economic Planning Corporation (CEPCO).
Contact: CEPCO
Green Collar Jobs Initiative
Location: Within City limits
Audience: Base level (export) employers, particularly manufacturers
Details: Assistance in implementing green technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the implementation of AB 32 and create career pathways in green technology.
Contact: audrey@chabinconcepts.com
Downtown Business Assistance
Location: Downtown
Audience: Businesses located in or interested in the downtown
Details: Business development and communication services that result in the retention, expansion and attraction of businesses and investment into Chico’s downtown.
Contact: Downtown Chico Business Assocation
Small Business Development Center (SBDC)
Location: Within City limits
Audience: Microenterprises located within the City of Chico and meeting the low and moderate income requirements of the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)
Details: Technical assistance, including business counseling and outreach, to.
Contact: Small Business Development Center
State Incentives and Assistance: California offers a number of incentives outlined in their “California Investment Guide: An Overview of Advantages, Assistance, Taxes and Permits.”Download California Investment Guide (PDF 349KB)
