Houston Means Business

Houston means business

CenterPoint Energy’s Economic Development Team

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To learn more about CenterPoint Energy’s Headquartered in Houston, Texas, CenterPoint Economic Development Team, contact your Energy, Inc., is an energy delivery company economic development representative or visit with electric transmission and distribution, CenterPointEnergy.com/EconomicDevelopment. power generation, and natural gas distribution operations that serve more than seven million metered customers in Arkansas, Indiana, Gwen Wagner (West) Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Ohio, Regional manager Oklahoma, and Texas. CenterPoint Energy’s Economic Development competitive energy businesses include Gwen.Wagner@ energy-related services, energy efficiency, and CenterPointEnergy.com sustainability solutions. The company also owns 713-207-3433 and operates intrastate natural gas pipeline systems that help fund utility operations.

Stephanie Wiggins (East) CenterPoint Energy maintains the wires, poles, Regional manager and electric infrastructure serving 2.4 million Economic Development metered customers in the greater Houston area Stephanie.Wiggins@ and 145,000 customers in Indiana. We sell and CenterPointEnergy.com deliver natural gas to 4.5 million homes and 713-207-6033 businesses in eight states.

Lonnie McDuell Project technician Ulondia.McDuell@ CenterPointEnergy.com 713-207-3432

©2020 CenterPoint Energy 203138 CenterPoint Energy Houston delivers talent Houston delivers infrastructure delivers innovation Houston has a talented workforce and wages that The academic center of the South help companies compete globally. It also offers real Houston has relationships reaching around the • More than 60 degree-granting colleges, estate priced below the national average, a robust world. The region’s geographic location provides universities, institutes, and technical schools infrastructure, low business costs and business easy global access for both goods and people. incentives, and a competitive tax climate. A fully integrated high-technology CenterPoint Energy’s Economic Development Team infrastructure takes full advantage of those ties to provide an Major corporate center • An established leader in commercializing and array of confidential services to businesses wishing • Headquarters of 22 Fortune 500 companies transferring technologies developed at the to expand to or relocate within the Houston area. • With 41 companies, Houston has the second Space Center Houston, Texas Medical Center, We partner with top business and civic leaders, largest concentration of Fortune 1000 and area universities to the private sector — including more than 50 economic development companies in the country in particular, energy, manufacturing, agencies at the state and local level, to assist and biotechnology companies and organizations throughout the • Includes offices for 51 of the top 100 region identify and qualify a possible site. international firms • Home of the state’s largest technology incubator, the Houston Technology Center The team’s goal is to provide you the information Large and talented workforce you need to make the right location or expansion • More than three million skilled, well-educated The energy capital of the world decision. Our services include the following: workers • More than 3,000 energy-related businesses, • Site selection assistance • More than 145 different languages are spoken including nearly 600 exploration and production - Select sites and coordinate tours in Houston firms and 170 pipeline operators - Prepare detailed site profiles and • Lowest cost of living among cities with more • Home to a $15 billion petrochemical regional demographics than two million residents manufacturing complex — the country’s, - Provide a single point of contact and one of the world’s largest • Market research assistance Robust distribution infrastructure • Nearly 40% of the country’s petrochemical • More than 575 miles of freeways and expressways manufacturing capacity is in the Houston • Regional assistance gulf coast region - Introduce businesses to community, regional, • One of the nation’s busiest rail centers, with 14 and state economic development professionals, mainline railways originating from Houston municipal officials, and industry executives • Bush Intercontinental Airport ranks fourth nationally and sixth worldwide in passenger • Due diligence for a variety of industries volume and eleventh in international air cargo - Aerospace - Biotechnology - Petrochemicals - Corporate relocation • The Port of Houston, the world’s sixth largest, - Manufacturing - Distribution and logistics ranks first in the nation in foreign tonnage and - Food manufacturing and distribution second in total tonnage.

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