LOCATION

REGIONAL HUB

Tyler, Texas is considered the advanced manufacturing, health care, educational, and retail center of East Texas. We offer companies a quality, centrally located, middle market location with many of the advantages of a major market. The economy is diverse and the area offers abundant and low cost labor, land, and buildings. Tyler is part of the Tyler MSA which includes all of Smith County, Texas.

Tyler/Smith County is strategically positioned just 90 miles east of Dallas/Fort Worth, 90 miles west of Shreveport, LA, and less than 200 miles north of Houston. Both Shreveport and Houston have international shipping facilities.

Tyler has excellent interstate and U.S. Highway systems with I-20, U.S. 271, and U.S. 69, and four major state highways that provide efficient and economical transportation to all destinations.

DISTANCE TO MAJOR METROPOLITAN AREAS

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the estimated 2007 population for the Tyler Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) is 198,705. The table below shows the Census Bureau 2007 estimates for other MSA's within 500 miles of Tyler.

MSA DISTANCE FROM TYLER 2007 POPULATION* Austin, TX 225 1,598,166 Dallas, TX 90 6,145,037 Houston, TX 199 5,628,101 Little Rock, AR 240 666,401 New Orleans, LA 432 1,030,363 Oklahoma City, OK 250 1,192,989 San Antonio, TX 300 1,990,675 Shreveport, LA 90 387,583 *SOURCE: U.S. Census Bureau