When corporations are looking for a new base of operations or a new manufacturing or assembly plant to build they often look at different properties that are available to build on in different cities across the country. With the considerations of hiring local employees to run the new facility, the cost of wages, transportation highways into and out of the city and state and municipal taxes, the decision of where to build or expand can come down to what cities are willing to make special concessions to attract new growth from incoming businesses.
Economic development is a concern for every city, no matter how large of small because economic development means an increased tax base for the city through sales revenues derived from the business coming into town and from the increased number of employees that are going to be hired to work at the new facility.
Development also means building new homes to house the workers that will be hired by the incoming company. Within each city all across the nation there are people working to attract businesses to their area and establish new operations for expanding corporations.
In Harlingen, Texas economic development through the city is coordinated with the local chamber of commerce to offer incentives and advantages to companies that are considering the building in the Southern Texas city. Just north of the border from Mexico, Harlingen offers trade routes and low labor costs for manufacturing goods that can be easily exported into Mexico. Corporations importing raw materials from our southern neighbor for assembly in the US might consider Harlingen for its convenient access to other regions of the country from a single centralized point.
DCNC- Harlingen EDC (http://www.harlingendc.com/) is a Harlingen, Texas economic development. Billings Farnsworth is a freelance writer.
