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Gun Barrel City, TX Economic Development Corp

Lakefront Getaway for Dallas Weekenders & Tourists

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Gun Barrel City, TX Economic Development Corp

Thriving Lakefront Community 1 Hour from DFW

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Gun Barrel City, TX Economic Development Corp

Live at the Lake. Work at the Lake. Take in the Action. 1 Hour from DFW.

Gun Barrel City, TX - Hub of Cedar Creek Lake

Build your business, grow your investment portfolio and make a home for your family in our resort city on Cedar Creek Lake. Surrounded by forest and located one hour from the DFW Metroplex, Gun Barrel City, Texas is the commercial, retail and entertainment hub of Cedar Creek Lake. A popular tourist destination, Gun Barrel has become home to a growing number of full time residents, telecommuters, and retirees wanting to live the good life. With new schools, incredible restaurants, live music, shopping and lakefront activities, it’s easy to see why people are moving to GBC.

The Gun Barrel City Economic Development Corporation is here to assist the businesses, developers and investors looking to meet the growing demand for local industry and services. We offer site selection assistance, facilitate incentives and provide hands-on support for second-stage and expanding companies. We invite you to contact us to discover why GBC is the prime community to invest in outside the Metroplex.

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Location Advantages

Only one hour from the Dallas-Fort Worth area via State Highway 175
Four hours from Austin
Visitors from Waco, Shreveport and Houston all can get to Gun Barrel City in travel times between those two.

Featured News

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Gun Barrel City Home Featured on HGTV!
April 13, 2022

In Texas, Dan and Emily find a waterfront home on Cedar Creek Lake that has tons of potential but needs a lot of work. They hope their budget will be enough to give them the open floor plan and modern farmhouse look they desire, turnin...

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Gun Barrel City Economic Development Corporation Launches New Website that Shows Off the Wonderful Town
March 28, 2022

Website Engages Community Members and Business Owners GUN BARREL CITY, TX -- Gun Barrel City Economic Development Corporation recently launched a newly designed website, created by Golden Shovel Agency, to further strengthen its online presence and to foster economic growth. The website is beautifully designed wit...

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Pier 334 Update
March 28, 2022

Pier 334, the Rebuild of Big Chief Landing: 60 room Boutique Hotel (55 standard rooms and 5 luxury suits) A 20,000 square foot, three-story food and entertainment Pavilion Splash Park Amphitheater and stage A Marina built on floating docks with 40 boat slips 225 parking spots as well as Valet parking ...

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17th Annual Consultants Survey: Consultants Are Optimistic About the Year Ahead
March 28, 2022

Profile of the Consultants Survey Respondents At least 80 percent of those responding to our 17th annual Consultants Survey work with manufacturers of durable goods, with some of these consultants also working with other manufacturers, and three quarters are working on distribution/logistics projects. Nearly half represen...

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35th Annual Corporate Survey: Effects of Global Pandemic Reflected in Executives’ Site and Facility Plans
March 28, 2022

The challenges faced in 2020 were unlike any other confronted in our lifetime. The global pandemic wreaked havoc on our personal and professional lives and the U.S. and global economies. The Commerce Department reports that U.S. GDP declined 3.5 percent in 2020, with the economy fallin...

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The 2021 Top States for Doing Business Reflect Their Locational Advantages
March 25, 2022

When we last took stock of Area Development’s Top States for Doing Business, it was a bit hard to gauge what “doing business” was even supposed to look like. In 2020, the country was riding one wave of COVID-19 after another, mixing times of turmoi...

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Front Line: U.S. Automakers Look to Semiconductor Partners
March 24, 2022

Covid-19 has resulted in wild gyrations in the supply chain with the hard-hit semiconductor industry having a major impact on U.S. auto manufacturing. From its beginning, Covid-19 resulted in auto plants closing around the country while sales of computers and other consumer products skyrocketed. Whe...

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Innovation Corridors Have Economic Assets Driving Business Growth
March 23, 2022

It’s no secret that the recipe for economic success usually includes generous portions of innovation and technology. That has been part of the economic development story for many years in such places as Boston, Seattle, the Research Triangle, and Silicon Valley. But just as you ca...

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The Labor Challenges of Site Selection
March 22, 2022

You’re evaluating a new site. It checks all the boxes when it comes to the property, local infrastructure, and business climate. You have one more box to check — labor supply. You’re presented with a hodge-podge of numbers. How can you make sense of i...

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Driving Into An Electric Vehicle Future
March 21, 2022

It seems like the ultimate good-news story. The shift toward electric vehicles will greatly improve the long-term climate health of the planet. It’ll improve human health, too, by reducing pollution. It’ll create thousands of jobs in new industries, with new manufacturing operations lifting local economies...

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An Evolving Incentives Environment
March 18, 2022

For nearly two years, the predominant COVID-19 driven incentive compliance issue looming over companies has been the difficulty to achieve and report on headcount performance as part of economic development incentive agreements. The evolving workplace landscape precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic adds another wrinkle to thi...

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Fully Enrolled: Esports and Video Game Programs Power Up on Campus
March 17, 2022

The digitizing of the economy is pervasive, whether you’re performing quality control in an automated manufacturing plant; undergoing a medical procedure; operating a container crane at a backed-up West Coast port; launching fabrication of a 3D-printed prototype; or putting the finishing touches on a breakthroug...

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Fields of Plenty: The Promise of Solar Energy
March 16, 2022

Chances are high that if you’ve been traveling around various regions of the United States in the past few years, you have noticed a solar array where one was not previously. I have had a similar “ah-ha” moment. You may have been struck by the fac...

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How States Lure the Big Fish
March 15, 2022

Governors Greg Abbott of Texas and Laura Kelly of Kansas are covered extensively in this issue as the winners of the 2021 Governors’ Cups — the former for total qualified capital investment projects last year and the latter for total per capita projects. The governor...

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The Rise of the Silicon Heartland
March 14, 2022

The ink on Intel’s $20 billion investment deal in Ohio was barely dry in January when experts started weighing in on the long-term impact of the deal. Much of the analysis in the press centered on Ohio’s $2 billion incentives package for the $200 billion California-base...

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Texas Continues Jobs Growth Streak In January 2022
March 12, 2022

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas started off strong in the first month of 2022 with gains of 29,000 total non-agricultural jobs in the first month of 2022, exceeding the previous record employment level set in December 2021 by reaching more than 13 million jobs, the Texa...

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Why These Texans Joined the Great Resignation
March 10, 2022

Whether you teach kids, tend bar, make sales calls, develop apps, or do whatever else for a living, you may have spent some period of the last two years considering doing something new. The COVID-19 pandemic rewired the way many of us think about th...

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Pier 334 Coming to Gun Barrel City
March 9, 2022

Gun Barrel City is planning a classy new waterfront development in the Big Chief area on Cedar Creek Lake (Reservoir). Pier 334 promises to impress visitors as they travel over the Cedar Creek Parkway (Highway 334) bridge into town. The building's three levels of floor-to-ceiling glas...

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In Focus: The Business Case for the Building of the Future
March 2, 2022

Over the past two years, building occupants have become more aware of the health of the environment around them, especially indoors. Additionally, awareness of “Sick Building Syndrome” — the idea that building occupants become sick from the building they work in — has grown. Now...

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A ‘Sansdemic’ Is On the Horizon
March 1, 2022

A prerequisite for a high-quality workforce is people. To upskill employees, attract remote workers, or fill a skill gap through a community college program, you first need people. That may be rather obvious, but talent attraction and retention efforts have been built on the assumptio...

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Decade Of Dominance: Texas Wins Its 10th Consecutive Governor’s Cup
March 1, 2022

Texas is going to need a bigger trophy case. Sports teams win trophies for accomplishments big and small, but championship trophies are the singular physical representation of a team’s season’s worth of hard work and dedication. Players and coaches who work hard enough to win ...

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McKesson CEO says moving HQ to Texas was the right decision
March 1, 2022

In 2019, McKesson Corporation joined the seemingly constant wave of companies relocating from California to Texas. In McKesson’s case, the move took the headquarters of the 76,000-employee company from San Francisco to the Las Colinas master-planned development in Irving. Three years later, Brian Tyler — wh...

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Seven Signs Of A New Site Selection Reality
February 28, 2022

As the world enters its third year of COVID-19, site selectors are doubling down on predictions they made a year ago. From reshoring and supply-chain tightening to remote working and worker shortages, site selectors are telling us that the trends exacerbated by the global pandemi...

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Creating Workforce Ambassadors Will Make Talent Attraction Easier
February 28, 2022

Making talent attraction easier, and more effective is top of mind for many economic developers and the businesses they support. Talent attraction has been a challenge post-pandemic, whether that means getting people already in the community to work at their highest potential or attracting talen...

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Why Economic Developers Should Enter The Metaverse
February 21, 2022

Retailers from Samsung to Disney are buying 'virtual real estate' sometimes in the millions of dollars to have a presence in the metaverse. Make no mistake, the metaverse is going to be huge and it will happen much faster than the dawn of websites, socia...

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Best Practices For Growing Your Workforce
February 14, 2022

As businesses throughout the country struggle to fill job vacancies, EDCs are stepping up to the plate. EDCs are working with community partners to develop innovative programs, connect talent with employers who are hiring, upskill the local workforce, and grow a pipeline of next-generation workers...

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How Leaders Can Demonstrate Empathy And Build Stronger Teams
February 9, 2022

Empathy is now a strategic imperative for leaders. Here are four ways to embrace empathy and build teams with higher levels of productivity, innovation, and engagement. Click here to view the video.

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TEXAS NO. 1 IN TRADE, FDI
February 1, 2022

Texas is the top exporting state for 19 consecutive years, and the The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reports trade up 34% in 2021. Texas is also #1 in foreign direct investment. Click here to vew the video.

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Coming Soon! Pier 334
January 20, 2022

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County to begin local redistricting
October 8, 2021

Henderson County Judge Wade McKinney said he has been informed that population changes in the 2020 Census are such that the county will have the task of redistricting. “That process will be beginning soon, especially if we want to get it done by Nov. 15,” h...

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Tri-County Library teams up with Mabank ISD
October 6, 2021

MABANK–As educators seek more creative ways to support students’ learning, a key resource for schools is the local public library. Now, Tri-County Library and Mabank Independent School District (MISD) have formed an innovative new partnership to increase students’ access to ebooks and digital audiobooks b...

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Gun Barrel City continues Big Chief talks
August 2, 2021

The Gun Barrel City Council and Economic Development Corporation met in a joint session Tuesday, concerning a proposed $12 million dollar hotel project at Big Chief Landing. After executive session, a first reading was conducted on a resolution between the Gun Barrel City EDC and YNS Services...

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The story behind Gun Barrel City's famous slogan
July 6, 2021

GUN BARREL CITY, Texas — Despite his short stature, Jim Malone walks tall along the hallways of the Kemp Care Center. At 74, he’s known widely among residents and staff as the man who created the slogan for Gun Barrel City, Texas. Malone holds u...

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Gun Barrel City: A small Texas town with origins having little to do with firearms
June 13, 2021

GUN BARREL CITY, Texas — Sandra Ward is met with a calm but steady wind as she opens the screen door to head out to her garden. “This is our all-around favorite plant that we planted,” Sandra said. “It is a pink shavon althea.” Just beyond he...

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Discount Tire Receives Welcome Plaque
August 1, 2020

Gun Barrel City Discount Tire store manager Gerrick Allred receives a welcome plaque from Gun Barrel City Mayor David Skains July 13 along with members of the Gun Barrel City Council and Economic Development Corporation. Story & photo provided by 'The Monitor'

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