When air conditioner manufacturer Carrier Corp. announced in November it would keep hundreds of jobs slated for Mexico in Indiana instead, it felt personal to residents of the East Texas town of Tyler. Just three years ago, hundreds lost their jobs there when a Carrier plant shut down and relocated to Mexico.
Read MoreThe most striking thing about 2016 is that it wasn’t 1986. But it could have been.
Read MoreA tax abatement package approved unanimously by Smith County commissioners Friday means the county will forego an estimated $198,000 in property taxes over five years - in exchange for luring a major distribution business to the county, bringing up to 185 jobs in the next five years...
Read MoreTyler will fare better economically in coming years than the nation, the state and even other cities in the East Texas region, says a new forecast by economist Ray Perryman.
Read MoreMuch like California in the late 1950s, Texas has become a major destination for Americans relocating within the United States, topping the charts for attracting new residents from other states.
From 2010 to 2014, Houston, Dallas, and Austin were the three population centers with the highest level of net domestic migration in the country.
Half of the top 10 cities listed in Forbes’ Fastest- Growing Cities of 2015 were located in Texas.
Read MoreEconomic development, politicians, city, county and other officials gathered for the groundbreaking Wednesday for an $11.2 million building to house Fresenius Medical Care, an international company that will bring 300-350 new jobs to Tyler.
Fresenius, which already employs approximately 120 people in three clinics and a business support center in Tyler, will expand in its new two-story, 80,000 square foot structure on the northeast corner of Earl Campbell Parkway and Southwest Loop 323. It is scheduled...
Read MoreBrunilda Ocasio just wants to get back into the classroom - as a teacher. For now, she’s in daily classes with the Tyler Literacy Council’s English as a Second Language program, as a student.
“I need to improve my English,” Ms. Ocasio said. “I want to be a teacher again. I hope maybe next school year I can be. I cross my fingers.”
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