In This Issue
TEXpansion:
Longview lands food service center
Outdoor grants bolster cities’ parks
Friendswood’s grants guide growth.
Partnering for Impact:
Funding sources bring businesses downtown
Texas boasts highest job growth in the nation.
Web Exclusive
Cities cooperate to bring beauty along Interstate
From Comptroller Susan Combs
Infrastructure, incentives and a well-trained work force can be crucial factors for a company’s decision to locate to a particular city, but quality of life for employees is also important. Beautification programs can be powerful economic development tools for Texas local governments seeking to recruit businesses and revitalize downtown business districts.
As your strategic partner for local government management, the Comptroller’s office is pleased to offer this issue of Texas Rising, which highlights ways Texas communities have used beautification programs to revitalize their economies and recruit businesses to their towns. We look at the numbers and the real return on investment for sprucing up Texas cities.
We are also pleased to announce www.TexasAhead.org, which will launch in late spring. This new, unprecedented Web portal brings together a wealth of economic data and resources to support economic growth in Texas. In addition to vital resources for local governments, economic developers and businesses, this portal will also link to interactive tools to crunch the numbers for an inside view of economic and demographic data including population, economy, employment and tax information on the county and city level. Visit us at www.TexasAhead.org this spring. We’ll share more about Texas Ahead in future issues of Texas Rising, so stay tuned.
When it comes to economic development, creating jobs and generating new levels of prosperity, local governments in Texas are focused on rising to the occasion every time.
Susan Combs
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