BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS - Hiring 5,000 construction workers to build a liquefied natural gas export terminal at the Port of Brownsville will lead to increased wage rates across the lower Rio Grande Valley.
That is the view of Pat Hobbs, executive...
MCALLEN, Texas - The Rio Grande Valley added 2,000 new manufacturing jobs over the last five years, according to data collated by the South Texas Manufacturers Association.
Mike Willis, executive director of STMA, said most of the growth is in...
EDINBURG, TEXAS - Just days after Edinburg Economic Development Corporation Executive Director Raudel Garza told the Rio Grande Guardian about his city’s “explosive growth” more record-breaking investment numbers have been announced.
Edinburg Mayor Ramiro Garza said $57 million in new...
MISSION, Texas - The CEO of Mission Economic Development Corporation has taken to LinkedIn to sound the alarm bell about a lack of available industrial warehouse space in the Rio Grande Valley.
“We need more industrial and logistics warehousing in...
EDINBURG, Texas - The executive director of Edinburg Economic Development Corporation says he has heard projections of his city having a population of nearly 150,000 by 2040.
Raudel Garza, pictured above, pointed out that Edinburg’s current population is 102,000.
“Twenty years...
BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Eduardo Campirano, port director for Brownsville Navigation District, recently gave a detailed overview of all the industrial activity that occurs at the Port of Brownsville.
Campirano was one of the keynote speakers at an eagerly-anticipated 2023 SelectUSA...
BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Hundreds of commercial trucks coming from the Mexican side of the Veterans International Bridge at Los Tomates in Brownsville are being rigorously inspected by troopers with the Texas Department of Public Safety.
The operation, which began on...
BROWNSVILLE, Texas - South Texas leaders are asking Gov. Greg Abbott why he has curtailed international trade at two land ports of entry in Cameron County.
On Thursday, Abbott ordered the Texas Department of Public Safety to start inspecting every...
BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Adam Gonzalez, CEO of COSTEP, says the 2023 SelectUSA Investment Summit Spinoff event held in Brownsville last week was a “huge success.”
The all-day event was hosted by the Greater Brownsville Incentives Corporation. The morning component, held...
Thank you for the introduction, Jerry. Good morning and welcome to Brownsville.
Being one of the few communities in the US chosen by SelectUSA for the third year consecutively, to host one of their spinoff events, is an absolute privilege.
I...
