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The Garrett Information Enterprise Center (GIEC) is designed to stimulate economic growth and job creation in Garrett County by helping small businesses grow. The GIEC offers state-of-the-art office suites as well as business and technical support and services to help ensure the success of business start-ups. The GIEC provides its tenants with the cutting-edge resources and technology needed to help entrepreneurs reach their full potential and create jobs and wealth for Garrett County. GIEC makes it easier to operate small information technology businesses by providing tenants with access to the following:

• Modern, technologically advanced office space
• High speed internet access
• Shared office services
• A campus library interfaced electronically with libraries worldwide
• Computer labs, classrooms and lab space located on the campus of Garrett College
• Free business counseling and a network of technical and financial resources
• Strategic planning and marketing
• Workforce development
• Grant programs for incubator tenants
• Regulatory and permitting assistance
• Seventeen office areas that range from approximately 305 square feet to 4050 square feet (Click Here to view our floor plan)
• A location in a HUBZone provides an advantages for those seeking government contract work
• Location on the Garrett College main campus to ensure full access to college services
• Convenient location in Garrett County Maryland, a popular lake and mountain resort community and close to three major metropolitan areas: Washington, DC, Baltimore, MD and Pittsburgh, PA

 “The Impact of Incubator Investments”, conducted by the National Business Incubator Association, found that business incubation programs produce graduate firms with high survival rates. Eighty-seven percent of graduating companies are still in business and an average of eighty-four percent of graduates remain in their communities.