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Fast Fact:

Minnesota ranks 3rd in workplace environment based on job opportunities, job quality, and workplace fairness. The state ranks first in job quality.

Infrastructure

The Northland offers outstanding infrastructure to meet your transportation, communications, energy and utilities, and business development needs.

The region's location at the western edge of Lake Superior makes it a natural transportation hub, and it offers a multimodal network of seaway, highway, rail and air transportation options, plus storage. Its robust telecommunications infrastructure instantly connects businesses to information and world markets. Reliable and competitively priced energy is available throughout the region, as is abundant fresh water.

For those in need of international or governmental resources, there is a well-developed network of individuals and organizations to provide information and offer assistance.