With local leaders placing an emphasis on growing the city’s tourism industry and funding now available to support it, the city of Leander is now marketing itself as a place to visit. In 2020, Holiday Inn Express & Suites Leander opened, making it the first and only hotel in Leander, and kickstarting the city’s collection […]
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Samsung Austin Semiconductor, a company that has already committed to building a $17 billion semiconductor facility in Taylor, could increase its investment there by tens of billions of dollars and add several thousand new jobs. According to several new Chapter 313 applications released July 20 through the Texas comptroller’s website, Taylor ISD has approved nine separate […]
Officials with the Williamson County Economic Development Partnership presented a report about economic successes in the past two years to the Williamson County Commissioners Court on July 19. The partnership is a self-funded collaboration of city leaders from Williamson County, Cedar Park, Georgetown, Jarrell, Round Rock, Leander, Liberty Hill and Taylor. The organization meets every […]
Phase 1 of a residential community at The Vineyard at Florence is under construction, a sign of housing development continuing to expand farther north into Williamson County. The Vineyard at Florence, which bills itself as the first residential winery in Texas, is located on 600 acres off FM 487. While the vineyard first started in […]
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Another supplier to semiconductor companies is heading to Austin’s suburbs. Round Rock City Council just approved incentives that will aid the company to move into a facility in the Crystal Park development, off East Old Settlers Boulevard. This story summarizes the deal struck and also includes ABJ’s latest list of the largest manufacturers in the […]
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Both Williamson County and the city of Georgetown approved economic development agreements with CelLink and Titan Gateway35 during their Feb. 22 meetings. CelLink, an electronics technology company, announced it would build a 294,297-square-foot facility at Titan Gateway35’s master-planned industrial park located near the south intersection of I-35 and SH 130 in a press release Feb. 16. The […]
What might be the most coveted stretch of highway in the country from an economic development standpoint starts with a Dairy Queen and ends with a Best Western, with strip malls and vast swaths of farm land in between. It is the 17-mile expanse of U.S. Highway 79 from Round Rock to Taylor, which in […]
The first inkling for Williamson County Judge Bill Gravell that a multibillion-dollar economic development project was interested in his patch of Central Texas came as he was celebrating his 37th wedding anniversary. Gravell and his wife were eating dinner on Jan. 4 at Paw-Paw’s Catfish House in Bastrop, he recalled, when his phone rang. On […]
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Perfect Game USA, which boasts that it’s the world’s largest baseball and softball scouting enterprise, has chosen Cedar Park for its new headquarters, bypassing Hutto, where it previously announced it would build a massive sports tourism, office and entertainment complex. PG Cedar Park Group LLC — an affiliate of Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based Perfect Game Inc. […]
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A company that makes cutlery plans to open its first United States manufacturing facility in Leander, a milestone economic development project that could bring up to 300 jobs to one the fastest-growing cities in the country. Cangshan Cutlery Company announced Aug. 24 plans to build a 400,000-square-facility on a 41-acre site at 204 Heritage Grove […]
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