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Grand Parkway nears crucial construction milestones
April 5, 2020 - One thing the coronavirus hasn’t slowed much is the construction of the Grand Parkway or SH-99.While the rest of the world around them deals with the coronavirus pandemic, construction workers continue the daily grind on the Grand Parkway.“We’re still at it at 100%. We...
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SBA and Treasury Begin Unprecedented Public-Private Mobilization Effort to Distribute Funds
March 30, 2020 - WASHINGTON – Following President Trump’s signing of the historic Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, SBA Administrator Jovita Carranza and Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin today announced that the SBA and Treasury Department have initiated a robust mobilization effort of banks and other lending...
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Businesses plan amid turbulent economy
March 25, 2020 - While politicians disagree on how to address the economic disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, there is universal agreement that there will be disruption on a massive scale.When Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo introduced the local version of a stay-at-home order, she named the effort “Stay Home, Work...
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Memorandum on Identification of Essential Critical Infrastructure Workers During Covid-19 Response
March 23, 2020 - Please click here to read full memorandum.
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The Port of Houston is Open for Business
March 23, 2020 - The Houston Ship Channel and the 200-plus private terminals and eight public terminals that comprise the greater Port of Houston remain operating and open for business following today's announcement by Harris County, Texas of a county-wide stay-at-home order. Our ESSENTIAL CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE WORKERS will remain on the job...
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Commissioners Court Cancellation
March 19, 2020 - Press ReleaseOFFICE OF THE COUNTY JUDGEChambers County, TX – March 20, 2020Chambers County Commissioners Court has been cancelled for Tuesday, March 24, 2020. At this time I feel that due to the risk of COVID-19, and limited County business slated for the upcoming Court Agenda, that it is best to cancel and not...
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$32 million OK’d for Cedar Bayou dredging
February 11, 2020 - The financing for an extensive Cedar Bayou dredging project has been secured.Cedar Bayou Navigation District Chairman Tim Tyler announced Tuesday funding for the channel improvement project in Cedar Bayou is fully funded in the Corps of Engineers work plan for fiscal year 2020. The amount needed to completed the improvements,...
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Council appoints members to battleship panel
January 25, 2020 - To help bring the USS Texas battleship to Baytown, city council is doing its part by appointing a representative as well as an alternate to a committee set on bringing the battleship to town. Laura Alvarado, the city’s District 1 representative, was unanimously appointed to represent the city...
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Air Products to Make Largest-Ever U.S. Investment of $500 Million
January 7, 2020 - Air Products to Make Largest-Ever U.S. Investment of $500 Million to Build, Own and Operate Its Largest-Ever Hydrogen SMR, a Nitrogen ASU and Utilities Facilities, and Wins Long-Term Contract to Supply Gulf Coast Ammonia’s New World-Scale Texas Production PlantAir Products (NYSE: APD) announced today its largest-ever investment in...
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Growth surges into new decade
December 31, 2019 - Construction on the rise in east Harris County, Chambers CountyThe decade of the 2010s was the decade when Houston discovered the east side. For good or ill—or both—the Baytown area will never be the same.It was just at the beginning of the decade, in 2011, that...
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