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As our ongoing series, ‘Growing Grapevine,’ delves into the heart and history of the City, it’s time to circle back to the industry that most everyone associates with our success: Hospitality. There are so many excellent hotels here in Grapevine that covering each and every one would prove difficult. Bu...
3 Ways To Solve Common Innovation Inefficiencies
Jun 20 2022It’s one thing to come up with clever business ideas. It’s another thing to get them smoothly from planning to execution.
The road to innovation is paved with plenty of detours, potholes, and one-way streets. While some of them are unavoidable and unexpected—like a global pandemic—others can be anticipated. And tha...
Recently, Elon Musk announced plans for the Tesla Bot, a humanoid robot that stands 5 feet, 8 inches tall. Musk said the robot “probably won’t work.” I hope he is wrong.
Many people have an adverse reaction to discussions of automation and artificial intelligence. While I understand those fears, I believ...
Station to Station
Jun 13 2022Remember as a child trying to learn the difference between “electric” and “electronic,” two words separated only by that “ON” switch in the middle?
Today — with a surge in EV demand and a shortage of semiconductors — they are the two most operative words in the automotive industry. How the...
If you ask managers, directors and executives to name the leaders of their company, most would be expected to point to themselves. They are the group who carry the formal, assigned responsibilities of leadership.
However, if you ask those same leaders to name people in the organization with the biggest influenc...
Going green is no longer just a niche catchphrase. It has become an increasingly mainstream part of doing business. In fact, in one recent study, 78 percent of Americans said they would be more likely to purchase environmentally friendly products, with 64 percent also willing to pay more for thes...
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Now is an excellent time to spotlight small business success in Grapevine, Texas. For one, the U.S. Small Business Administration promotes National Small Business Week to recognize the critical contributions of America’s entrepreneurs and small business owners. In Grapevine, visitors and foot traffic are ramping up for the summertime boo...
(The Center Square) – A second event in a new Small Business Series will take place Thursday in Fort Worth, Texas.
The series, hosted by the state Economic Development and Tourism Office, the Fort Worth Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and the Texas Workforce Commission, connects small business owners and aspiring entrepreneur...
Workforce Development To Get The Job Done
Jun 8 2022Workforce issues are nothing new. The struggle to attract and retain employees is as old as companies themselves. However, as anyone who owns a business can attest, the magnitude of today’s workforce challenges is unprecedented. So many companies are grappling to find the right workers, but many come up short...
May proved to be Grapevine's most prolific month yet for new business openings in 2022! Almost two dozen new vendors opened their doors (or, at least, obtained their certificates of occupancy) last month, offering everything from tasty food to life-saving medical services. While there isn't room for all of th...
Communities throughout the country are facing a housing crisis either due to a lack of housing units, as the result of prices skyrocketing past the level of affordability, or both. Solving this crisis requires creativity and the support of the entire community. As such, leaders who put forth policies withou...
Ask anyone here in the City of Grapevine and they’ll tell you: things look a little different here than they did a few decades back. Some of the more tenured residents will talk about a “transformation” that took place over the course of about 40 years. We prefer to thin...
Today, consumers, investors, and even employees are expecting more out of the companies they support. It doesn’t take much browsing on social media to read about brands that have earned widespread ire for falling short. About half of all consumers admit to publicly skewering businesses. Even if those brands ar...
Crunch Time in the Construction Industry
May 25 2022It’s no news that lingering supply chain disruptions and inflationary pressures have forced project teams across the U.S. to shake up their procurement and delivery processes. The projects of today are rife with risk, as supplied materials’ lead times and pricing have proven to be no longer as reliable a...
How to Effectively Hire During the New Normal
May 24 2022The way businesses in the industrial sector approach hiring new employees has changed. Companies can no longer rely on posting a job ad and sitting back to wait for resumes to flood in. With unemployment rates at an all-time low after the advent of the Great Resignation, the best candidate...
Texas is the state with the most Fortune 500 companies, according to the 68th Fortune 500 annual list of the largest U.S. corporations, with 53 Fortune 500 corporate headquarters that call the Lone Star State home. With the June 2022 announcement that Caterpillar is moving its global headquarters from Illinois...
Even though the FTZ program was created in 1934, its relevance today is huge. After the year 2002, when Customs allowed for weekly entry (which greatly increased the demand for zones in warehouse and fulfillment centers), the FTZ program entered an even more lucrative incentive profile.
This profile is enhanced b...
The Cattle Trader’s Secret Formula
May 16 2022Barreling forward at 125 miles an hour in his little red helicopter, Jim Schwertner gazes down upon a kaleidoscope of earth tones, patches in a 20,000-acre quilt. The dark khaki of the cornfields plays off the tawny grazing pastures. Both contrast starkly with the gray mazes of the surrounding subdivision...
In Texas, a state that encompasses 268,597 square miles — more territory than the country of France — a network of more than 313,000 miles of public highways helps stitch together an impressive economic network.
The thousands of miles of highway in Texas represent billions of dollars in economic impact. Withou...
The blockchain has revolutionized business in many ways. It has opened up a wealth of new opportunities for savvy entrepreneurs, improved operations for lots of companies, and given consumers a whole new world of fun and methods of wealth creation. But as things like cryptocurrency, NFTs, and the Metaverse g...
It’s official: Meow Wolf (a.k.a. Project Black Corinth in confidential circles here in the Economic Development office) is coming to Grapevine. An immersive art experience with a dedicated following, Meow Wolf is famous for its explosive neon color palette and massive, interactive installations. No two exhibits are alike, from th...
Belong Gaming Arenas, a subsidiary of global gaming and technology company Vindex, announced on Monday its partnership with the Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District.
The partnership will help establish scholastic esports programs and support the nationwide development of the amateur esports ecosystem. Tapping into its network of local gaming centers, Belong wil...
Texas’s Export Trade Up 49% In March 2022
May 5 2022AUSTIN — Texas reported a more than 49% increase in export trade in March 2022 over the same month last year and exceeded the year-to-date 2021 trend by more than 40% — according to data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released May 4.
In March 2022, Texas reported expor...
Looking at the City of Grapevine today, it’s difficult to picture its sprawling parks, first-to-market attractions, and Historic Main Street as an undeveloped community. But half a century ago, most of the City consisted of suburban housing and unbroken lengths of Texas prairie or farmland. And, of course, a human-mad...
