Floyd Growth Center
The new 16,000 square-foot industrial building boasts two spaces, each with 24’ tall open bays, bay doors, office suite and access to loading dock. The resilient building has multiple energy sources including solar PV and a backup generator as well as gigabit fiber internet and EV charger.
• Tenant A: 7,592 SF lab/production
1,614 SF office space on main
1,735 SF mechanical/ mezzanine
10,841 SF TOTAL
• Tenant B: 3,398 SF lab/production
888 SF office on main
966 SF mechanical/mezzanine
5,252 SF TOTAL
Proximity to Virginia Tech and Radford University, for close collaboration.
Strong public and private schools, including computer science, robotics, and more, plus tuition-free 2-year STEM degree option for new high school graduates and annual college loan pay-back program for many engineers
who work in Floyd.
Business-friendly environment, including incentive program offeringgenerous tax rebates.
Location is a qualified SBA Hub-zone, eligible for New Markets Tax Credits,
and covered by a Foreign Trade Zone.
Vibrant, growing community with rich music and arts programs and events.
Learn More About Floyd Growth Center Building 1
Contact us to schedule a call
If you are looking for a small-town environment, we hope you’ll take a good look at Floyd, Virginia. Our economic development team can show you available real estate, review our community’s advanced technology infrastructure and future business community development plans, and then introduce you to businesses who have benefitted from choosing to make Floyd home.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you,
Lydeana Martin
Director of Economic Development
Floyd County, Virginia
lmartin@floydcova.org
540-745-9300
Tabitha Hodge
Operations Manager for Economic Development
thodge@floydcova.org
540-745-9352
Many people know Floyd, Virginia for its world-renowned music, festivals, food, an artisanal culture, and picturesque beauty. Our little secret is the cluster of custom-solution metal-working businesses and the pipeline of certified welders and other tradesmen and women that emerge each year from Floyd.
If your business is expanding or you are looking for a new start in a small-town environment where skilled talent is appreciated, we hope you’ll take a good look at Floyd, Virginia. We’d like to invite you to schedule an in-person trip.
Our economic development team can show you available real estate, review our community’s advanced technology infrastructure and business and training facilities, and then introduce you to other people and businesses who have benefited from choosing to make Floyd home.
Some of Floyd’s diverse companies in this sector:
Ideal fit businesses will leverage our welding and trained craftsman talent pipeline and world-wide reputation to fuel their business’ growth and advancement, and appreciate our unique local culture, small town values, business community resources, and creative and hardworking people. Our 20+ year-old welding program, run by Doug Thompson, CWI, CWE, has graduated about 500 certified welders. The Career and Technical Education Center is also used to train local adults through night, weekend, and summer courses offered in partnership with The New River Community College.
WHY FLOYD
20+
Students graduate from our Floyd County High School with AWS Certifications
$14 million
Invested in new Collaboration & Career Development Center to provide in-demand training to youth and adults in Floyd
500+
Alumni of the Floyd County High School welding program
Many graduates strive to stay in our community. When you grow up in a place like Floyd, there is simply no place like home. But a lot of locally-trained talent has gone on to support companies all around the world. Some of our welding graduates have pursued careers in underwater welding, art welding, and agriculture equipment repair. Others repair nuclear power plants. Many have worked in places like South Korea, Germany, France, and Belgium.
During this global health crisis, we’ve been especially reminded of the benefits of small-town life. Local farmers make us less reliant on outside food sources. Spread-out housing and plenty of green space make social distancing easier and more bearable. And people in our tight-knit little community take care of each other—they’ll go the extra mile, metaphorically and literally, to make sure that everybody has what they need in this difficult time.
Featured Resources
Floyd County Welding Workforce Brochure
Floyd County High School’s welding program has graduated about 500 students. Welding program graduates have worked with a wide variety of materials, become skilled in blueprint reading and taking accurate measurements, and achieved Six Sigma yellow belt status.
Sites and Spaces
Check out what’s available for your business to start, grow, or relocate to Floyd.
Collaboration &
Career Development Center
The CCDC will work closely with businesses and local colleges and provide labs and innovative flex space for project-based career and technical learning for high schoolers and adults in welding, drawing and design, robotics, computer science, building trades, business and information technology, culinary arts, fine arts, health/medicine, agriculture, automotive, and more.
“I think the work ethic of the children in Floyd County has helped develop such a successful welding program because they have been taught work ethic long before they get to me. In a small, rural area, they come in ready to work and wanting to learn”
~ Doug Thompson, CWI, CWE, Welding Instructor, Floyd County High School
Learn More About Floyd Growth Center Building 1
Contact us to schedule a call
If you are looking for a small-town environment, we hope you’ll take a good look at Floyd, Virginia. Our economic development team can show you available real estate, review our community’s advanced technology infrastructure and future business community development plans, and then introduce you to businesses who have benefitted from choosing to make Floyd home.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you,
Lydeana Martin
Director of Economic Development
Floyd County, Virginia
lmartin@floydcova.org
540-745-9300
Tabitha Hodge
Operations Manager for Economic Development
thodge@floydcova.org
540-745-9352