How fast the export base of your economy is growing will ultimately determine how fast your population can grow, and what that population is going to be doing for work, and how people and goods are going to move within the community. Basically what you'd have are a bunch of people driving forklifts. And you have big buildings with few people doing work that, by nature, is hard to do a lot better two years from now. If you're not doing the job more efficiently, you can't justify higher wages, so you don't get the income growth. What we do on our side is warehousing.
Warehouses can make the most money in the short-run.
This works for the developer, not for the community in the long-run. It's harder to do. It's probably less lucrative in the short term. The only reason our organization has the luxury of targeting value-added manufacturing is that we stand to gain from the downstream development that those jobs end up creating. What happens is, you create 100 jobs in the manufacturing sector.