A recent article in The Monitor features Valley Superior Powder Coating, the leader in providing this type of service for companies in the Rio Grande Valley. General Manager Thomas Violett discusses how he provides this service to all manufacturers and companies in the Rio Grande Valley and Mexico and how it can help reduce emissions.
This company, with the help of the McAllen Economic Development Corporation, located in the McAllen MSA and has plans to expand.
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According to a recent survey, “in McAllen, 93 percent of residents said they felt safe walking or driving in their neighborhoods, compared to 85 percent in El Paso, 80 percent in Laredo and 75 percent in Brownsville.”
The Border Network for Human Rights commissioned the survey of more than 1,200 border residents in McAllen, El Paso, Laredo and Brownsville, TX and other border cities in New Mexico, Arizona and California. Border Network Executive Director Fernando Garcia told the Texas Tribune this: “We hoped (this poll) would tell the real story of the border — especially the real perceptions and feelings of border residents about safety and security. This poll sets the record straight.”
McAllen is consistently ranked as one of the safest cities in the U.S., according to FBI Crime Statistics.
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According to a recent Kiplinger report, McAllen, TX ranks as a No. 4 on the list of least expensive cities to live. The report indicates that the cost of Living Index: 86.5 and the McAllen/Edinburg MSA Population is 706,039. The median household income is $28,328 and the average home price is $213,383.
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To help promote healthy living and environmental protection, Farley’s & Sathers Candy Company (known as Dulces Famosos) in Reynosa sponsored a week-long health fair for all employees and their immediate families. In the parking lot outside the plant, which is located in Villa Florida Industrial Park, hospitals, health officials, schools and pharmacies set up tents providing free services and information. Dulces Famosos employs about 1,000 people and produces candy canes and other sweet candy for distribution in the United States.
“We’re very proud of our company and our employees,” said Randy Main, general managers of Dulces Famosos, to a group of employees and their children. “We have to do special things for our people and this fair is an example of this. Not only is it an example, but it’s a promise, an obligation and our social responsibility.”
Main said that employees would have time to receive private screenings and he was working with everyone’s schedule to ensure employees that had a pre-existing condition would have access to a specialist available at the plant. Keith Patridge, President/CEO of the McAllen Economic Development Corporation; Ralph Garcia, Vice President for Mexico Business Recruitment; and Victoria Hirschberg, Marketing Director for the McAllen Economic Development Corporation, participating in the inaugural activities at the Reynosa plant.
“The health fair exemplifies some of the great things that are still happening in Reynosa,” Patridge said. “Main, just like our other plant managers in McAllen and Reynosa, take care of their employees.”
“Number one (is that) we believe a healthy employee is a productive employee,” Main said. “And for that reason we are focusing this fair on health and number two, our employees have the right to leave each day in the same condition as when they arrived for their shift.”
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Reynosa, a city of about 1 million and an industrial hub in Northeast Mexico, will receive a boom in housing thanks to new jobs and a new housing developer.
Uribi, the leading housing developer in Mexico, will expand its operations throughout the state of Tamaulipas and in Reynosa, the state’s largest city. The McAllen Economic Development Corporation works closely with the City of Reynosa to attract industry and manufacturing to both sides of the border.
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After an a study conducted by the Associated Press, it was found that cities along the U.S.-Mexico are actually one of the safest in the country despite the negative perception at the national level. McAllen, TX has one of the lowest violent crimes rates and contines to emerge as a urban metro area in South Texas.
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The Wall Street Journal recently visited McAllen for the day to report about the impacts of violence on Mexico on the McAllen economy. The reporter met with McAllen Economic Development Corporation President/CEO Keith Patridge to discuss the situation throughout Mexico. From the article: “The gunplay hasn’t erupted in McAllen itself, but people here fear their hard-won economic gains, already dimmed by the recession, are under threat.
“So far, the violence has acted as a disruption,” said Keith Patridge, whose job as president of the local development agency is to attract companies to the area. “If it were to get worse, it would have a big impact.”
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The Rio Grande Valley Vipers NBA Development League and sole affiliate with the Houston Rockets will compete for the league championship. The best of three game series will begin Monday in Tulsa. The series comes back to the Rio Grande Valley on Tuesday at State Farm Arena.
The Vipers is the first NBA D-League team in the McAllen MSA and packs the 6,000-seat arena whenever they are in town. The Vipers is a hybrid model of D-League teams as it trains and sends players directly to the Houston Rockets. Notable Rockets players such as Yao Ming and Aaron Brooks have visited the McAllen area and the Rockets played the Boston Celtics during the pre-season in McAllen.
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McAllen is all about Green living- green manufacturing, green living and green festivals.
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Dr. Cayetano Barrera, historian, local doctor and past-president of the McAllen Economic Development Corporation has pushed for the creation of a monument on the Texas Capitol Grounds that honors Tejano culture.
Barrera said: “Time makes more converts than reason. It was not fashionable to have Spanish and Mexican history in our books. This, I don’t think, could have happened 30 years ago. But times change.”
The Texas Historical Preservation Board approved the site and design of the monument in January. The Tejano Monument Inc. still has to raise more than $500,000 to cover any cost over-runs for the bronze casting, insurance for the monument and the eventual unveiling ceremony, which could draw thousands of people, said the group’s co-Vice President Renato Ramirez.
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