- May 5, 2024
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The County Commission will discuss, at the Sept. 11 meeting, whether or not to designate Project Bahia — the code name for a defense-related company that might move into the Flagler County Airport — as a qualified target industry.
If the board designates it as such, Bahia could be offered as much as $8,000 per job in work-creation incentives, said County Administrator Craig Coffey.
“Enterprise Flagler worked on this quite a bit,” he added.
The company, should it close negotiations with the county, would move into the former MH Operations space at the airport.
Because Flagler County was recently designated a REDI (Rural Economic Development Initiative) county, it is eligible for up to $6,000 per job from the state to offer potential companies for job creation. That’s about $3,000 more than a county like Duval, Coffey said.
Flagler also qualifies for an extra $2,000 on top of that, due to the airport’s Brownfield area (or “Brownfield Bonus”) incentive designation.
“He looked all over, he looked high and low,” Coffey said of Project Bahia’s owner, “… and it looks like he really wants to be here … Ultimately, we want to see them build a building in the county.”
Coffey said that Bahia’s owner currently has another business located in another Florida airport.
