Business View Magazine | January 2020

265 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JANUARY 2020 (the Chemours Chamber Works facility is located on 1,400 acres in Deepwater, NJ), its officials say they’re responsive to other kinds of businesses and engines of economic growth. “We’re always seeking economic development,” says Hassler. “With that, what we’ve got to offer in Salem County is the location. We have interstate 295, we’re at the base of Delaware Memorial Bridge, and we have the New Jersey Turnpike, all within a stone’s throw of each other.” Other industries that make a notable economic impact are the County’s railway and shallow- draft port. “The port of Salem is a designated United States Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ),” Hassler continues. “Although it’s not a deep vessel, it can take pretty large ships in and out of there. We’re also rebuilding our railroad system in the county. The railway will lead from this Port of Salem all the way out to the next county, which ties into the national railroad system. We have rail, we have water, we have the highway. Everything’s available in this county.” “We’re open for business,” Mills affirms. “And we’re small enough to help businesses. Here, you have direct access to government, which doesn’t always happen in larger places. There’s plenty of will to assist people in doing what they need to do, and in getting the right people at the table so that it happens.” With its population of 63,000 holding steady, the County is optimistic that it can develop a more resilient economy. Salem County takes full advantage of the Opportunity Zones program—a federal tax incentive designed to drive long-term capital investments into low-income rural and urban communities—and invests in its workforce through partnerships between Salem Community SALEM COUNTY , NEW JERSEY