INCENTIVES

Malden is located within an Enhanced Enterprise Zone with all benefits available such as tax abatements or business inducements allowed by Missouri State Statutes. Further information about Tax Credits and Enhanced Enterprise Zones can be found on the internet at www.missouridevelopment.org (then click on the link on the left for BCS Programs- Business & Community Services).

The current assessed value in Dunklin County for Commercial Real Property is 32% and the assessed value for Personal Property is 33 1/3%.  The 2006 property tax for Dunklin County is $4.4776 per hundred and the rate for the City of Malden is $.6651 per hundred.

Local Incentives and Assets:

• Abundant, level land
• Excellent transportation system -highway, rail, and air
• Available, dedicated workforce
• Low-cost utilities
• Available utility hookups for companies
• Possible City and County tax abatements in addition to State tax abatements
• Supply temporary office for new companies until established in their own facility
• Local college -- Bootheel Education Center (BEC) & Three Rivers Community College (TRCC)
• Excellent Public School system - Accredited
• Hands-on youth museum -- Bootheel Youth Museum
• Military Museum and Veterans Wall of Honor
• Community Center
• Local TV Station Channel 21
• Two 9 hole golf courses
• Excellent, family oriented quality of life (See Community Section)