One Region, Multiple Strengths

Texas First Regional Development Corporation brings together economic development organizations serving multiple communities across East Texas. Each partner contributes its own industrial properties, university, college and workforce resources, infrastructure and business relationships, while working collectively to present international investors with one connected region and a single, easier point of entry.

Together, the partner organizations represent a diverse business environment extending across major transportation corridors such as Interstates 20 and 30 and U.S. Highways 59 and 69. The region’s combined strengths include advanced manufacturing, aerospace and defense, petrochemicals, logistics, agribusiness, metal fabrication and other industrial activities. Companies can evaluate opportunities across the full region while Texas First helps identify the communities and properties best aligned with their operational requirements.

Texas First can evaluate a project’s site, building, workforce, utility, transportation and timing requirements and coordinate responses from across the region. This approach gives investors access to the best-fit opportunities while allowing each partner organization to provide the local knowledge and project support needed to move from initial evaluation toward investment.