Boone County utilizes the Location One Information system (LOIS) to gather site or building selection information with up-to-date real estate and local information to make the process simple and easy.

Columbia Data Center Partnership

The Columbia Data Center Partnership is a community and developer team approach to developing Columbia as a location for all tier levels of data centers.  The emphasis on data centers in Columbia began in 2007 with a consultants report entitled, Data Center Analysis and Evaluation for Columbia, Missouri.  That report showed that Columbia scored well in the critical areas of 1) cost of power, 2) disaster risk, and 3) labor availability.

A local development group has acquired over 200 acres of land located adjacent to the convergence of multiple transmission lines, electrical substation, and a gas peaking plant. The Ewing Industrial Site offers redundancy of electric and broadband, along with looped water supply. The development group submitted the site as the first application to the Missouri Department of Economic Development’s Certified Site Program, and the site has met all of the requirements for certification. Access information on Missouri's First Certified Site, Columbia's Ewing Industrial Park. Watch the Ewing Site video here. The City of Columbia supports development of the site by policy. Read more.

Columbia also has other positive attributes for data centers. The University of Missouri College of Engineering Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering can ensure a qualified workforce. The National Security Administration recently named the University of Missouri as a Center for Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education. The County of Boone has also developed an incentive package for qualifying data center projects based on the Chapter 100 Revenue Bond Program to encourage new data center investment in Columbia.

Columbia Area Jobs Foundation

The Columbia Area Jobs Foundation (CAJF) is a non-profit corporation operated to benefit the City of Columbia, Missouri.  CAJF can receive donations of money and real estate and will invest and reinvest those assets.  The corporation will work to have any owned or controlled real estate re-zoned, improved or readied for use by potential industrial and/or commercial users and employers.

Research Park Sites

Discovery Ridge, the University of Missouri's 114-acre research park, offers sites of various sizes to tenants who desire proximity to the university's world-class research. (Discovery Ridge Master Plan).

Incubator

Life Science Business Incubator at Monsanto Place, access to unique life science resources.