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Locating and growing a business in Appanoose County definitely has its advantages. We have a wide variety of resources dedicated to assist in determining the programs and opportunities that will benefit your business the most.

Incentives
AEDC Revolving Loan Fund
The Appanoose Economic Development Corporation Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) is a program established for the purpose of promoting the continued expansion and retention of the County’s commercial and industrial base. Th...
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Category: Business Expansion, Local Programs

Appanoose Industrial Corporation
The Appanoose Industrial Corporation is an organization that can provide additional financial incentives to businesses relocating to or expanding in Appanoose County.
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Category: Local Programs

Assistive Device Tax Credit
Reduces taxes for small businesses that incur costs through making physical changes to the workplace to help employees with disabilities to get or keep their job.
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Category: Iowa State Incentives, Tax Incentives

Brownfield/Grayfield Tax Credit Program
The Brownfield/Grayfield Tax Credit Program offers qualifying projects tax credits of up to 24% for qualifying costs of a Brownfield project and 30% if the project meets green building requirements...
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Category: Iowa State Incentives, Tax Incentives

Chariton Valley Planning and Development
Chariton Valley Planning and Development, located in Centerville, has been designated as an Iowa Council of Governments. This organization assists businesses and governments in Appanoose, Lucas, Monroe and Wayne Countie...
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Category: Regional Programs

Demonstration Fund
Provides financial awards up to $150,000 to encourage commercialization activities by small and medium-sized Iowa companies in the advanced manufacturing, biosciences, and information technology industries. The fund is designed t...
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Category: Iowa State Incentives, Grants & Loans

Endow Iowa
Endow Iowa was developed to encourage the growth and development of community foundations and related organizations in the state, by encouraging donations to non-profit organizations. Individuals, businesses, and financial institution...
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Category: Iowa State Incentives, Tax Incentives

Entrepreneurial Venture Component
The entrepreneurial component provides financial assistance and/or technical assistance to early-stage businesses that are developing a new product or new technology. INVESTING IN NEW IDEAS AND TECHNOLOGY! The Iowa Economic Development Authorit...
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Category: Iowa State Incentives, Grants & Loans

Grow Iowa Values Financial Assistance Program
Serves as the funding source for projects that are focused on job creation or retention, value-added agriculture and entrepreneurial efforts. This program, combined with Iowa’s nationally recognized business climate, ta...
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Category: Iowa State Incentives, Grants & Loans

High Quality Jobs Program
This program is designed to promote the creation or retention of quality jobs by assisting businesses locating, expanding or modernizing their facilities in Iowa through a package of tax credits...
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Category: Iowa State Incentives, Tax Incentives

HUBZone
Appanoose county is a designated HUBZone which the Government considers a preferred location when granting government contracts to manufacturers and businesses. The Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUBZone) program helps smal...
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Category: Local Programs

IADG Energy Bank Revolving Loan Fund
Low Interest Revolving Loan Fund Finance energy efficiency and renewable energy projects through the IADG Energy Bank. With qualified energy improvement projects, facilities need no upfront or additional capital. Loan payment...
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Category: State Programs

IEDA Business Project Review
The Iowa Economic Development Authority provides a Business Project Review Form that can be completed by a business then sent back to IEDA and reviewed by staff. This will determin...
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Category: Business Expansion

Iowa Capital Access Program (ICAP)
The Iowa Capital Access Program (ICAP) assists Iowa businesses secure the financing they need to launch, retain, or expand business operations in Iowa. ICAP encourages banks and other eligible financia...
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Category: Iowa State Incentives, Grants & Loans

Iowa Innovation Acceleration Fund
The Iowa Innovation Acceleration Fund promotes the formation and growth of businesses that engage in the transfer of technology into competitive, profitable companies that create high paying jobs. The fund...
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Category: Iowa State Incentives, Grants & Loans

Iowa Small Business (ISB) Loan Support Program
The Iowa Small Business (ISB) Loan Support Program aids Iowa entrepreneurs and small businesses in their efforts to access capital for business purposes including start up costs, working capital, busines...
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Category: Iowa State Incentives, Grants & Loans

Job Training Cost Reimbursement Program (260E & 260F)
This is program called either the 260E or 260F program provides reimbursement of the costs affiliated with new job training.  There are a variety of costs that qualify.  Contact To...
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Category: Local Incentive

New Jobs Tax Credit
The Iowa New Jobs Tax Credit is an Iowa corporate income tax credit and is available to a company that has entered into a New Jobs Training Agreement (260E) an...
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Category: Iowa State Incentives, Tax Incentives

New Market Tax Credits
The New Market Tax Credit (NMTC) was created by Congress to address the lack of capital available to business and community development ventures in federally defined defined tracts throughout th...
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Category: State Programs

Opportunity Squared Economic Development Marketing Region
The Opportunity Squared Region is an 8 county consortium that develops programs to market the region. Go to www.op2iowa.com for more information, and to see the videos we have produce...
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Category: Regional Programs

Pollution Control or Recycling Property Tax Exemption
Improvements to real property that are primarily used to control pollution of air or water, or primarily used for recycling, may qualify for a property tax exemption.  
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Category: Iowa State Incentives, Tax Incentives

Property Tax Abatement
Many of Appanoose County’s communities have up to a five-year graduated tax abatement applied to purchase and construction of buildings. Iowa law allows cities and counties to abate local property taxe...
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Category: Local Programs

Regional Revolving Loan Funds (RLF)
Appanoose County is part of a regional revolving loan called Regional Economic Development Investments (REDI). Two short-term, low interest loan programs, REDI and Self Employment Loan Program (SELP) provide soli...
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Category: Business Expansion

Regulatory Assistance
The Regulatory Assistance Program enhances the range of services available to Iowa companies by advising and assisting companies in the preparation and submission of permit application with the Iowa Departmen...
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Category: State Programs

Research and Development Tax Credit
A refundable credit for increasing research activities is 6.5 percent of the company's allotted share of qualifying research expenditures in Iowa. A company must meet the qualifications of the federa...
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Category: State Programs

Ripple Effect Program
Ripple Effect works with Iowa’s Independent Telephone Companies (ITC) by providing direct financial assistance to emerging and expanding companies and ITC business and industry customers through low-interest loans matched b...
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Category: State Programs

Targeted Small Business (TSB) Assistance Program
The Targeted Small Business (TSB) Assistance Program supports the creation and expansion of small businesses that are certified as a “targeted small business”.
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Category: Iowa State Incentives, Grants & Loans

Tax Increment Financing (TIF)
The State of Iowa has a very favorable Tax Increment Financing (TIF) law – possibly one of the most flexibly applied TIF laws in the United States. The City o...
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Category: Local Programs

Value-Added Agriculture Component
Seeks to increase the innovative utilization of Iowa's agricultural commodities. The Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA) has retooled our direct financial assistance programs to provide the flexibility and responsiveness necessary t...
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Category: Iowa State Incentives, Grants & Loans

Work Opportunity Tax Credit
Appanoose County employers may qualify for a maximum of $2,400 for each employee hired (credit of 40% of the first $6,000 of wages paid to an eligible employee that work...
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Appanoose County Fast Facts

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Honey Creek Resort

Located on Rathbun Lake in south-central Iowa, Honey Creek Resort is nestled in a beautiful natural setting. Enjoy activities such as golf, boating, fishing, our indoor water park, hiking and much more.

Honey Creek Resort
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Downtown Centerville

For almost three decades, Iowa's Main Street communities have made a commitment to the long-term revitalization of their historic commercial districts.

Downtown Centerville
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Moulton-Udell Community School District   

The county is home to residents of 10 other communities filled with great civic pride and quality school districts.

Moulton-Udell Schools
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Seymour Community School District

The county is home to residents of 10 other communities filled with great civic pride and quality school districts.

Seymour Schools
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Albia Community School District

The county is home to residents of 10 other communities filled with great civic pride and quality school districts.

Albia Schools
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Centerville Community School District

The county is home to residents of 10 other communities filled with great civic pride and quality school districts.

Centerville Schools
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An Outdoorsman Paradise!

Centerville, IA ranked number 5 ‘Hunting and Fishing Town’ in Outdoor Life Magazine.

An Outdoorsman Paradise
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Moravia Community School District

The county is home to residents of 10 other communities filled with great civic pride and quality school districts.

Moravia Schools
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Indian Hills Community College

Indian Hills Community College (IHCC) is one of 15 community colleges in the state of Iowa. Founded in 1966, the college's district spans 10 counties in southeast Iowa.

Indian Hills