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Entertainment Marketing: Grapevine Shows How It’s Done with Their April Fools’ Podcast Episode
Mar 29 2023Grapevine Economic Development launched a podcast in 2022 to authentically and organically tell the story of Grapevine, TX. By doing so, the department hoped stand out amongst their peers in the blockbuster economy of the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) Metroplex.Growing Grapevine Season One explored the 50-year history of Grapevine’s evolution, delving...
Governor Greg Abbott today congratulated Texans and Texas employers on helping our state lead the nation in job growth, following the news showing Texas led all states with 654,100 jobs added January 2022 to January 2023. Over those 12 months, Texas grew jobs at 5.0 percent, outpacing the national rate...
Governor Greg Abbott today celebrated the state’s growing workforce and strong economy following the latest employment release from the Texas Workforce Commission showing Texas again broke the all-time record for total jobs in January for the 16th consecutive month. With Texas employers adding 48,600 nonfarm jobs in January, total jobs...
SizeUp — a premier business data evaluation tool — allows Grapevine Economic Development to offer the power of big data to its small and mid-sized business community . . . for free. Traditionally, only large corporations could afford to hire management consultants and research analysts to gain planning insights through...
Indie bookstores are booming in North Texas – and a Grapevine store is the latest edition
Mar 2 2023From KERA News:
First, it was The Wild Detectives bookstore setting up shop in the Bishop Arts District in 2014. It was the first bookstore in the area to serve both alcohol and a distinctly sophisticated choice of books.
Read the complete article from Texas Standard The National Daily...
We celebrate the latest business openings in Grapevine with a list of diverse new companies across the City every month... and this time, it was hard to choose just five. So we cheated a little and lumped three awesome new restaurants together in one listing so that there would be...
Harvest Hall announced three new culinary partners joining its roster of vendors this March.
The new additions include seafood restaurant Dock Local, fried chicken restaurant Firebawks Hot Chicken and Italian restaurant Pizza by Luigi.
Read the complete article from Community Impact here.
Places You Can Trust
Mar 1 2023If winning back-to-back championships establishes dynasties, what do you call it when you win 10 years in a row?
In Chicagoland, they hand the ball to the ref and they act like they’ve been there before. Because they have.
Read the complete article from Site Selection Magazine here. ...
Grapevine Mills recently celebrated 25 years in operation, but it‘s also celebrating a decade of rebirth. The shopping center at the heart of Grapevine, Texas launched a years-long reinvigoration in the early 2010s. Since then, aesthetic changes and new tenants have revamped the property into a dynamic retail and entertainment...
Former Adobe CTO Raises $65 Million To Help Businesses Generate Marketing Content With AI
Feb 27 2023Abhay Parasnis, the former chief technology officer of Adobe, wants to use AI powered by OpenAI, Stable Diffusion and computer vision models to help companies churn out branded content. His startup Typeface, which he launched in June 2022, has now raised $65 million in Series A financing to continue building...
Two Texas Emissions Reduction Plan Grant Rounds Now Open with an Estimated $55 Million in Funding Available
Feb 25 2023The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) is now accepting applications for the Emissions Reduction Incentive Grants (ERIG) Program and the New Technology Implementation Grant (NTIG) Program.
The ERIG Program will be providing an estimated $45 million in funding to help replace or repower older locomotives, marine vessels, stationary...
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Why did Grapevine Economic Development launch a podcast? The short answer is to authentically and organically tell the story of Grapevine. The far-reaching benefit is to stand out in the already blockbuster economy of the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) Metroplex.
Texas is a business-friendly state with favorable tax policies and...
When striving for success, it is easy to forget about your mental and physical health. But without health, you cannot fully succeed. Follow these ten lifestyle strategies for success in your personal and professional life.
Self-care has become an all-encompassing term that has strayed from the importance of everyday...
Businesses gauge their performance typically with dozens of goals and metrics. But you can't do everything at once. The challenge is to get people focused on the one thing that's most important right now. If it moved in the right direction, it would eliminate a weakness (or capitalize on an...
A new study by Logitech of 3,000 employees and 1,000 IT hardware decision-makers in large organizations found that 89% struggle with video and 85% with audio in their work-from-home office. Less than 40% received accessories other than mice and keyboards from their organizations.
While these results are concerning, I...
Google is worried. University professors are worried. High school English teachers are worried.
ChatGPT continues to make headlines and fuel dystopian fears of artificial intelligence technology replacing search engines, writing, and basically our lives. Being an economic development marketing innovator, I decided to test the usefulness of ChatGPT...
After hosting a wealth of groundbreaking ceremonies and ribbon cuttings to close out 2022, development has cooled slightly here in Grapevine. That's normal; we'll see projects heating up again as we move it into the Summer and Fall. But even in down months, Grapevine is home to incredible entrepreneurs and...
Higher Ed Tackles Workforce Shortages
Feb 1 2023The labor pool in Texas is as deep as it is wide, but the demands of a growing population expose shortages in key occupations where the number of available, educated workers is showing signs of receding.
Jobs requiring postsecondary education and specific technical skill training will form a significant...
As Valentine’s Day approaches, we can think of no better thing to celebrate than the long-lasting love between local businesses and the City of Grapevine. And, while rom-coms aren’t quite the same as public-private partnerships, we’ve noticed a few startling similarities as we ponder the beautiful relationships that make this...
Data Center Sector to Expand Exponentially
Jan 25 2023With data centers, there isn’t much of a gray area.
To most observers who live, work or play around these often immense structures, they’re rather dull but necessary monoliths. They can lifelessly loom along a given horizon, which one might encounter driving through what’s known as Data Center Alley...
Logistics: A Supply Chain Under Strain
Jan 25 2023It’s said that any chain is no stronger than its weakest link with this past year proving that that ages-old bromide has never been truer.
It is critical here to understand that, in reality, there is no such thing as a single supply chain. While the ‘land, sea, air’...
Texas sidewalks, bike lanes to receive funding
Jan 24 2023AUSTIN – As Texas strives to reduce the rising number of pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities, TxDOT is making available around $250 million for its 2023 Transportation Alternatives Call for Projects.
The federal funding will go towards sidewalks, bike lanes, shared-use paths and other projects to enhance walking and biking transportation...
Where, O Where Have the Laborers Gone?
Jan 23 2023The more things change, the more they stay the same.
That summarizes the key takeaway of this year’s Site Selectors Survey. A year ago, site consultants told us they preferred the business climates found in Southern locales over the rest of the country. This year, the consultants doubled down...
The worst part of coming to the office
One key filter to determine what to do where: to maximize productivity, hybrid work models have to minimize commuting time for employees. Coming to the office needs to be for a specific purpose that outweighs the significant costs — in time, money...
