'Go East (Texas), Young Person'

Attracting new business is about building relationships, and East Texas is making a lot of new friends.

Great Outdoors Draws Campers, Boaters, Anglers

East Texas is a magnet for campers, boaters and fishermen.

Energy Growth Helps Communities Diversify Base

Oil is an economic mainstay in East Texas, and natural-gas exploration and other new-energy initiatives are fueling growth in retail, restaurant and lodging facilities.

Infrastructure Drives Distributors to East Texas

Not all roads lead to East Texas, but enough major ones do that the region’s distribution business is booming.

'Go East (Texas), Young Person'
Great Outdoors Draws Campers, Boaters, Anglers
Energy Growth Helps Communities Diversify Base
Infrastructure Drives Distributors to East Texas
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Welcome to the online edition of Business Images East Texas, which takes an informed look at residential and business life in East Texas. Business Images is sponsored by the East Texas Council of Governments.

Living and Working in East Texas

The East Texas region is strategically prepared for business, with its proximity to Mexico, excellent infrastructure, skilled and trainable workforce and favorable pro-business climate.
Transportation
Trade-Zone Status Lures Business to Region
New business and industrial parks coming online and a Foreign Trade Zone desig­nation at East Texas Regional Airport and its adjacent business park are making East Texas even more advan­tageous for FULL ARTICLE
Quality of Life
Main Street Program Spruces Up Downtowns
Take a look at downtown Henderson to see what 20 years as a designated Texas Main Street community looks like. Period lampposts, trees, flowerbeds and hanging baskets grace the streetscape. Merchants FULL ARTICLE
Health
A Cure for What Ails You
Everything’s big in Texas, and that includes the Texas-sized health-care network. Providing state-of-the-art health care, specialized medicine and a wealth of resources to East Texas residents, the FULL ARTICLE

Success Stories

Canton Waterpark is Buckets of Fun
The City of Canton offered three prime reasons for why it would be the ideal location for Splash Kingdom Waterpark. The city is centrally located for FULL ARTICLE
Oil Museum Hits Gusher of Interest
The oil boom of the early 1930s forever transformed the sleepy railroad town of Kilgore. Prior to the discovery of Daisy Bradford No. 3, Kilgore ­– FULL ARTICLE
'Texas Tea' Still a Menu Staple Served Proudly in the Lone Star State
The East Texas Oil Field remains among the most iconic phrases in American industry. Discovered one day in October 1930, the field is spread across FULL ARTICLE
It Made Tyler Great
The railroad industry helped make Tyler a major economic hub in the early and mid-1900s, and its depot still exists today. The Cotton Belt Depot was FULL ARTICLE

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Demographics

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