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Looking to expand in the Austin area? Bastrop is located nearby and has the talent you need to grow your company. Bastrop’s economic development website now offers site selectors and businesses, looking for a location, our new free online area talent planning tool. Utilizing the Geographical Information System (GIS) too...Continue Reading

Bastrop’s economic development website has a new online tool that compares communities around the area. This Geographical Information System (GIS) planning tool is great for site selectors and business owners looking for an ideal place to locate their business.  This comparison tool allows site selectors to compare surrounding communities with Bastrop...Continue Reading

Bastrop, TX, is excited to announce our new economic development website which features an in-depth community profile on the city. This new feature is offered to anyone who would like to learn more about our city, including site selectors and business owners who are looking for a place to locat...Continue Reading

Our new economic development website offers site selectors free in-depth demographics about Bastrop, Texas. This tool is meant to help site selectors and businesses looking for an ideal location to learn more about the city of Bastrop. Our Geographical Information System (GIS) demographics planning tool gives site selectors a wealt...Continue Reading

Are you looking for available properties in or around Bastrop, Texas? If so, we urge you to check out our new free online Geographic Information System (GIS) planning tool. Here site selectors and prospective business owners can easily search through all available commercial properties for sale, rent, or lease i...Continue Reading

Bastrop invites you to follow our new social media accounts so that you can stay up to date with the local news and events happening in the area. Bastrop is a lively city in the heart of Texas with a large and thriving business sector. Bastrop residents also enjoy severa...Continue Reading

For Rebecca Gleason, the best possible boon to Downtown Bastrop’s economic success is making people aware it exists. Gleason, Bastrop’s Main Street manager, wants people to know more about the small businesses populating Downtown — an economic district created nearly 15 years ago, and the responsibility Bastrop residents have to suppor...Continue Reading

Traveling between parks in Bastrop will soon become easier as the city is set to begin a sidewalk connectivity project linking together several public green spaces. “This is a long time coming,” Public Works Director Curtis Hancock said of the project during his presentation at the Oct. 27 City Council meeting. Severa...Continue Reading

the Rural Relief Small Business Grants Program which provides assistance to small businesses in rural communities of 50,000 or less. The grant is being offered by LISC (Local Initiatives Support Corporation). LISC is a national non-profit corporation that has been around since 1979.  They receive funding from banks, corporations, foundations and government agencies, and use th...Continue Reading

Governor’s Small Business Webinar Series Business Strategies for an Evolving Future: Optimizing Online Marketing & Selling When: Wednesday, October 28, 2020, 1:00 - 2:00 PM Central Time Where: Online Webinar About: It has never been more critical for all businesses to have a strong online presence. The next Governor’s Small Business Webinar will offer guidance on developing effectiv...Continue Reading

The Governor's Economic Development & Tourism Office and AMCHAM Colombia are teaming up to bring you Texas-Colombia Business Trade & Investment Week, a virtual event exploring business, trade, investment and tourism opportunities between Colombia and Texas. Take advantage of one-on-one matchmaking meetings with business prospects from Colombia and participate in virtual sit...Continue Reading

AUSTIN, TX – Governor Greg Abbott issued a statement after a new survey of U.S. corporate executives ranked Texas the number one state for business for the eighth consecutive time since 1996. The survey was released at the International Economic Development Council (IEDC) Annual Conference, which is being held from Dalla...Continue Reading

The metal arms of a hydraulic shaker clamp around the trunk of a mature pecan tree, performing a high-speed vibrato lasting nearly a minute. The ripe nuts hit the ground like shrapnel while the violent quivering of the leaves sounds like hail on aluminum shingles. At Swift River Pecans in Fentress...Continue Reading

BOERNE, Texas (KXAN) — As the coronavirus pandemic continues to take a toll on lives and healthcare systems across the country, communities are also having to contend with the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, 58 Texas communities beyond metropolitan areas have a new lifeline in weathering this storm...Continue Reading

CareerCraft, The Bastrop Chamber of Commerce, The Bastrop Economic Development Corporation, and Workforce Solutions Rural Capital Area are teaming up to support Bastrop ISD Career and Technical Education programs.  Your help is needed to develop and implement two programs for the 2020-2021 academic year.   Program #1: Mentorship Program - - Think bac...Continue Reading

Local Initiatives Support Corporation is accepting applications for Rural Relief Small Business Grants. The application period is currently open and closes on October 5, 2020 at 11:59PM ET. LISC is committed to $18 Million in program funding with an expectation of awarding 900 grants. Click here for additional program and eligibility information.  For MAX-TRAX logi...Continue Reading

After a change in developer, a new design and a $1.1 million cost increase, the finish line is finally in sight for the Downtown Bastrop building under construction on the empty lot at 921 Main St. Bastrop Economic Development Corporation CEO Cameron Cox and project manager Jimmy Crouch both confirmed construction i...Continue Reading

In times of economic struggle — such as the recession that abruptly arrived with the COVID-19 pandemic — analysts and advocates promote an array of options as effective tools for stimulating the economy. One of the most frequently suggested options is infrastructure spending. Proponents of infrastructure spending during dire economi...Continue Reading

As the coronavirus pandemic disrupted global supply chains, a new report released in April by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) urged the U.S. government to develop a national industrial strategy to strengthen the competitive position of advanced, traded-sector industries that are “too critical to fail.” “Even before this pandemic...Continue Reading

Few implications of the COVID-19 pandemic are as consequential to global manufacturers as disruptions to their supply chains. For many, this is the most consequential by far. Supply chains are always a work in progress as such market variables as transportation costs, tariffs and trade agreements force logistics managers t...Continue Reading

AD: Will more companies be re-shoring or near-shoring as a result of the global pandemic? Jensen: For certain, most companies are closely examining the options available to them to avoid future supply chain interruptions. Part of the challenge of making a decision on a future sourcing direction is that this story isn’t over...Continue Reading

For Immediate Release September 22, 2020  Contact: Cameron Cox  Chief Executive Officer (512) 332-8870 cameron@bastropedc.org BEDC Announces Career Training & Technology Center in Partnership with Deep in the Heart Art Foundry The Bastrop City Council approved an agreement between the Bastrop Economic Development Corporation and Deep in the Heart Art Foundry for business development and workforce trainin...Continue Reading

The Brookings Institution hosted a webinar on June 10 titled “Mitigating the Economic Impacts of COVID-19 in Rural Areas.” Moderator Tracy Hadden Loh, a Brookings Institution Fellow, engaged three experts on rural economies in looking back at the pandemic’s effect on two small towns and across rural America, and ho...Continue Reading

Somewhere between your umpteenth Zoom meeting of the month and the latest webinar on the economic impacts of COVID-19, this thought probably crossed your mind: “How long will I be working from home?” While an exact answer to that question still eludes most companies, the effects of remote working are startin...Continue Reading