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Gun Barrel City looks to youth sports, retail leakage to drive growth
Summary
EDC and council members prioritized capturing retail leakage and developing youth/tournament sports fields on a 60-acre site as short-term strategies to attract visitors, hotels and restaurants and increase sales tax revenue.
Gun Barrel City council and its Economic Development Corporation (EDC) spent the bulk of a workshop debating how to translate the city's comprehensive and strategic plans into near-term priorities, with multiple members urging a focus on retail leakage and youth sports as economic drivers.
Charles, the EDC representative, framed the strategy as two-linked priorities: use the lake and events to create secondary demand and then capture primary retail that follows. "I don't talk about Gun Barrel City in a vacuum," he said, arguing the city is part of a larger Lakeplex market…
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