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Chamber and economic development partnership tout jobs and ROI; council asks for deeper data
Summary
The Irving Las Colinas Chamber reported 32 recruitment wins, nearly 2,000 new jobs and an independent consultant’s ROI showing a roughly 160% single-year return and ~193% five-year return on public investment; councilmembers asked for supporting data and discussed challenges filling aging office inventory.
Beth Bowman, president and CEO of the Irving Las Colinas Chamber and the Irving Economic Development Partnership, presented a year-end economic development summary to the Irving City Council highlighting business recruitment, retention and small-business support.
Bowman said the partnership secured 32 new recruitment wins representing nearly 2.8 million square feet of commercial space, $557 million in capital investment and nearly 2,000 projected new jobs in Irving over…
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