Locate & Grow Business

Businesses choose the Quad Cities

QC, That’s Where companies come to take advantage of our diverse supply chain, skilled workforce and abundance of business resources. Located in the heart of the Midwest, there’s an ease of doing business in the Quad Cities with multi-modal access to the coasts, competitive business costs and a highly skilled labor pool. The Quad Cities talent pipeline is robust, flush with work-based learning opportunities and apprenticeships to fuel your company’s growth. The Quad Cities is where businesses choose to locate because it offers fertile ground for growth, and the possibility of taking their brand to the global market.

Julie Forsythe
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Julie Forsythe
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Economic Development
In the QC there is an ease of doing business, with low costs, ample utilities and multi-modal access to the coasts. Check out our featured properties, sites and buildings and business incentives.
Business Resources
The Chamber has a vast toolbox of business resources and programs focused on helping advance companies.
Government Affairs
We initiate conversations with local, state and federal policy makers and champion legislation that benefits our region’s businesses and economy.
Workforce
QC, That’s Where we’re helping build a network of skilled workers with creative solutions through work-based learning.
QC, That's Where?
A Connection to the World!

The QC is the heart of the Midwest, connected by one of the world’s most renowned rivers, the Mississippi and the regional towns it gave birth to over the centuries.

Five major cities make up the Quad Cities metro: Bettendorf and Davenport Iowa, East Moline, Moline and Rock Island Illinois. The entire QC is a family of communities in a six-county bi-state region: Clinton, Muscatine and Scott Counties in Iowa & Henry, Mercer and Rock Island Counties in Illinois. It's within a 300-mile radius of 41 million people with close access to major markets: Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul, St. Louis, Des Moines, Omaha, Kansas City and Indianapolis.

QC offers an open-minded network and drive that make the region a hub of ambition; with an opportunity to live in a place that’s as genuine as it is quirky, where you can start something and make a difference, and enjoy the well-being of an authentic community along with the freedom of connection to the world.