Canon City, Colorado - Good for Small Business

Canon City, Colorado is known for it's 6 Prisons; Stateintriguing, University of Kansas Geology Field Camp, is
and Federal, women's prison and juvenile. It is alsoalso there. Originally the area had a coal mine too,
home to the First Colorado Territorial Prison. Picturedwhich was shut down many years ago.Even several
here. Most of the people work for the prison systemJohn Wayne Movies were filmed in the Royal Gorge
and it is the main employer of the town. This helps thearea, as well as many modern day movies at the old
local business community with high paying jobs. Theprison, which is now a medium security prison and is in
small town has 7 new car dealerships and six usedfull use today. The Prison Museum is a must see and
dealerships. Canon City is surrounded by several otherranks up with Alcatraz Prison Museum and Folsom
smaller towns, which add quite a bit of people to thePrison Museum. also thought that Florence was an
area.The surrounding cities are Florence, Lincoln Park,excellent Market. Florence is located 9 miles east of
Royal Gorge, Brookside, Williamsburg, Rockvale, andCanon City and has potential for industrial and
Penrose. It is only 21 miles from West Pueblo. Thecommercial locations. They have adequate water,
large prison population do not have cars we can washup-to-date planning and zoning regulations, superb
but all those guards do. And they work all kinds ofsmall-town atmosphere and a wonderful year-round
different hours so there could be a 24 Hour Businessclimate. They have a lot of new homes to attract
there no problem. With nearly 28,000 total arearesidents to their 4,500 plus population, There are
residents this makes for a pretty good area to own aseveral industrial sites available in Florence. The areas
small business. Real Estate values have constantlyChamber of Commerce is also very active. you are
climbed as well and so has the prison population overlooking for a place to run a business in Colorado you
the years. Since the Geology of the area is somight take a look at Canon City, nice place indeed.