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Bring your resume to the Royse City, Texas, Holiday Job Fair on December 3, from 1-4 p.m. at the High Point Assembly of God Church, 880 Erby Campbell Boulevard! Sponsored by Royse City Community Development Corporation, Chamber of Commerce, Main Street, and Independent School District, the Job Fair’s goal i...Continue Reading

Small Business Saturday, held during the weekend after Thanksgiving, is a day dedicated to celebrating small businesses and encouraging consumers to shop at local establishments. Sandwiched between the frenzy of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Small Business Saturday is an opportunity for shoppers to support businesses in their towns an...Continue Reading

If it wasn’t already obvious just how much Rockwall County and its cities have been growing, a report from the 2020 Census offered definitive proof. The U.S. Census Bureau released statistics Aug. 12 which will help determine how the county, municipalities and other governmental agencies set the lines for redistricting. The number...Continue Reading

Even during the best of times, starting a small business is tough. During the Covid-19 pandemic, it became a quest for survival. While roughly one-third of small businesses were closed amid the lockdowns, many have reopened their doors or launched anew as consumer demand roars back. Each of the 31.7 millio...Continue Reading

Most businesses have not escaped supply chain challenges over the previous 12 months. When everyone expected COVID-19 to slow demand, it accelerated demand to a point where supply chains were stretched to their limits. But it not just COVID — the winter storm of 2021 reduced Texas’ capacity to refin...Continue Reading

Jeffrey Counsell’s article in Area Development, “Siting a New Production Plant: A Challenge Intensifies”, was an excellent discussion of a new dynamic in food plant site selection: avoiding second-generation food plants solely due to the potential risk of pathogens. I also teach this tactic of risk management. Early in m...Continue Reading

Congratulations. Your business is growing! Revenue is up, and you just launched a new product that is flying off the shelves. The only problem is you need to hire more people and you have no place to put them. You have hired a site selector, and they have found th...Continue Reading

The economic development industry and the site selection process saw significant changes brought on by the events of 2020 — from economic development groups learning how to conduct effective virtual site tours to managing the disbursement of federal funding through the Cares Act. These changes may have been more manageabl...Continue Reading

Let’s face it: Manufacturers’ traditional sales models can hurt both the company and the customer. Because of the pandemic causing havoc on supply chains, selling direct has become a more popular option for many manufacturers.  Looking forward to the 2020s, the old model of selling through a distribution/broker/retailer channel may stil...Continue Reading

Success as an entrepreneur is difficult to explain. While we immediately think of it as making a tremendous amount of wealth, success doesn’t always mean that. Rather it comes down to defining it on your own terms and directing your life to live by those principles. Below are 10 entrepreneurs wh...Continue Reading

I’m someone that thought they would spend years climbing the corporate ladder... When I first graduated from college, I started working at a tech startup, where I was able to climb multiple rungs at a time. Sadly, my dreams were shattered when the company I worked for went bankrupt and ...Continue Reading

The tech talent workforce is steadily getting more diverse each year as employers emphasize it in recruitment and retention strategies. Still, diversity remains a challenge for tech employers, and to address it we must first understand its scope and implications. By most measures, tech talent in the U.S. long has lacke...Continue Reading

Leave it to a nun to get it done.” The good sisters have always seemed to have a way of making what seems impossible happen. In 1999, Emmanuel College, a small Catholic liberal arts college in Boston’s Fenway neighborhood, had fewer than 500 students, a dwindling endowment and none of th...Continue Reading

Amazon is planning to hire as many as 3,000 seasonal workers in the Austin area, as the e-commerce giant ramps up for the holiday season, the company announced Monday.  The roles are in a range of positions including stowing, picking, packing and shipping. The jobs have an average starting pay o...Continue Reading

Across the nation, finding well-positioned, developable land with utilities and infrastructure has become almost impossible in some areas. Just about all of it has been scooped up by hungry buyers. Competition for land zoned for industrial/warehouse development is particularly intense. Owners with any inclination of selling have already done so, o...Continue Reading

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, millennials purchased half their grocery products online, and e-commerce grocery shopping made up 4.5 percent of market share. As of January 2021, that same share is up to 12.5 percent and projected to rise another 9 percent by 2025 — creating a tipping point i...Continue Reading

Governor Greg Abbott and the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) today announced that the Texas Rent Relief Program has distributed more than $1 billion in rental and utility assistance to more than 174,000 Texas households, with another $52 million already committed to being paid. Texas is th...Continue Reading

Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Tony Curry, John D. Guevara, and John Mulholland to the Aerospace and Aviation Advisory Committee for terms set to expire on September 1, 2023. Additionally, the Governor appointed Jim Allmon and Shelly Lesikar deZevallos, Ed.D. and reappointed Aimee Burnett, Lauren Dreyer, and Jennifer Williamson fo...Continue Reading

“You win or lose based on the talent you have and the culture you create that allows your talent to thrive.” That’s the word shared by Steve Presley, chairman and CEO of Nestlé USA, and it’s wisdom with which most successful corporate leaders would agree. Presley says his company found th...Continue Reading

As businesses navigate a new world following the global pandemic, most will need to adapt to a more agile workplace. An overarching result of the pandemic was the population diffusion of city centers. As COVID cases continue to affect our society, a return to downtown metro areas has been slo...Continue Reading

Royse City, TX, is home to manufacturing companies that are producing goods for the global market using the latest technologies. October is Manufacturing Month and Royse City Community Development Corporation (RCCDC) is celebrating these companies for their employment opportunities and their innovations that grow the local economy. Manufacturing in Royse City Th...Continue Reading

More than a concept, “It’s definitely a done deal,” says Mason Ailstock about a 2,000-acre knowledge district called Rowen taking shape in rural eastern Gwinnett County, Georgia. “Rowen” means second harvest. It’s a fitting moniker for a project aimed at fostering research and higher education collaboration in key industries on lan...Continue Reading