Premier Location
Kitty Hawk Business Park is located in Auburn, Maine, within 30 miles of 65% of the state’s population. Just off the Maine Turnpike and set next to the Lewiston-Auburn Airport and the Auburn Intermodal Facility, Kitty Hawk is a visible and easy-to-get-to site of opportunity and resources.
Auburn and its sister city, Lewiston, are vibrant communities full of business, education, healthcare and recreation resources. The local area boasts a talented, skilled and knowledgeable workforce, making Kitty Hawk Business Park a natural fit for wide variety of companies and industries.
Welcoming, business-friendly Auburn is Maine’s pioneer in business attraction and retention, with efficient, streamlined processes and policies that put the business point of view first in mind. All development sites in Auburn, including Kitty Hawk Business Park, are pre-approved and zoned. A business can begin construction within one week of submitting an application. In addition, Auburn and Kitty Hawk Business Park have first-rate infrastructure, including a high-speed fiber optic network. Businesses in the park will also find underground utilities, tastefully lit streets and beautiful landscaping fitting of a world-class business park.
In addition, businesses locating to Kitty Hawk can take advantage of tax incentives offered through Maine’s Pine Tree Development Zone program as well as the benefits offered through its location within a Foreign Trade Zone.
Accessibility & Convenience
Kitty Hawk Business Park is conveniently located at the center of a wide array of transportation options for both people and goods, making it one of the most accessible locations in Maine and the Northeast. Bordered on one side by I-95, the park is highly visible as well.
Since nearly 70 million people in the Northeastern United States and Canada are within 600 miles of Kitty Hawk, the park is an ideal location for distribution. Boston, Burlington, New York City, Rochester, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Baltimore and Washington DC are all within easy striking distance, as are Moncton, Halifax, Montréal, Québec, Toronto and Ottawa.
Its proximity to Maine’s largest urban areas—just five minutes from downtown Lewiston-Auburn and 40 minutes from lively Portland—give employees easy access to cultural, educational, social and recreational opportunities. And Boston is an easy 2-hour drive.
Multi-Modal Transportation
Kitty Hawk is ideally situated in the center of numerous transportation options. Both the Canadian National Auburn Intermodal Terminal, linking rail to trucking transportation, as well as the Lewiston-Auburn Airport are right next to the park. In addition, an I-95 interchange is just a half a mile away.
The intermodal facility, the largest container port in Maine, provides one of the only double-track services in New England. Tracks run from Halifax to Vancouver, Northern Ontario to New Orleans. Products are routinely shipped to and received from Asia as well.
The 547-acre Auburn-Lewiston Airport sees daily corporate, charter, cargo and recreational air traffic. Over 65% of Maine’s population lives and works within a 30-mile radius of the airport. Its two runways can handle medium-haul cargo jets, and the airport has reliably been used for flights carrying time-sensitive documents requiring daily processing.
Interstate 95, the East Coast’s major north-south highway, runs from Houlton, Maine (and into Atlantic Canada) to Miami, providing easy access from Kitty Hawk Business Park to a large population base and the country’s highway network.
Resourceful Community
Maine’s second largest metropolitan area, USM Lewiston-Auburn, is an energetic and creative region where businesses, organizations and people thrive.
The area is home to several colleges that provide higher education and continuing education opportunities as well as job training, including Bates College—nationally ranked liberal arts college—Lewiston-Auburn College, Andover College and Central Maine Community College.
First-rate healthcare is also available at St. Mary’s Medical Center and Central Maine Medical Center, both located in Lewiston. These hospitals and their network of doctors provide highly regarded emergency, critical care, primary care and specialty healthcare (including cardiology, oncology and orthopedics) services.
The area is home to outdoor recreation for all interests and abilities. An extensive network of walking, running and biking trails runs through Lewiston and Auburn as well as the outskirts. Lost Valley Ski Area is just 6 miles from downtown Auburn, and nationally known Sugarloaf and Sunday River ski mountains are 2 hours and 1 hour 20 minutes away, respectively. Family friendly Saddleback Mountain is two and a half hours from Auburn. The area is also home to abundant fishing, canoeing, kayaking, biking, hiking and championship golf opportunities as well.
A burgeoning arts scene includes galleries and museums as well as performing arts at the Great Falls Performing Arts Center, home to the Community Little Theatre, and The Public Theatre. The Canadian Hockey League Lewiston MAINEiacs play at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee. And the annual Great Falls Balloon Festival, one of the largest hot air balloon festivals in New England, regularly draws 100,000 attendees. With so many additional arts and culture and sporting events, festivals, restaurants and nightlife as well, there’s good reason why they say, “L-A: It’s Happening Here!”
Foreign Trade Zone
Kitty Hawk Business Park is located within Auburn’s 760-acre Foreign Trade Zone, which is considered outside the territory of U.S. Customs and therefore reduces or eliminates Customs entry procedures as well as import and export duties for most items.
Imports into the FTZ are not subject to a duty, and exports from the FTZ to another country also do not require the payment of a duty. Other export duties are significantly reduced or eliminated for most products. A wide variety of industrial processes are permitted within an FTZ, such as assembly, manufacturing, repackaging, demolition, salvage or cleaning, among others.
Businesses can lower their costs, often significantly, through the use of an FTZ, not only in duties but also subsequently in banking, insurance and outside vendors.
Kitty Hawk Business Park also provides the tax advantages of Maine’s Pine Tree Zone program, which returns 50% to 100% of payroll and property taxes paid by businesses for 10 years, provides sales and use tax exemptions, and reduces utility rates.