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Texarkana Is Sitting on a Lithium Goldmine and America’s Best Opportunity to Watch a Startup Ecosystem Emerge

Texarkana sits on one of the country’s largest lithium deposits, and TexAmericas Center is where much of the action is happening. The industrial park already hosts EnergyX’s new lithium demonstration plant and has grown to 44 companies and more than 1,500 jobs. Paul O’Brien argues that the next step is helping local startups solve problems for these big employers, so the region builds its own companies and not just someone else’s.

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Speed as Strategy: How TexAmericas Center is reframing economic development

In most markets, time is the most expensive line item in an industrial deal even if it never appears on a balance sheet. Months stretch into years as projects move through permitting, zoning reviews and public approvals, each step adding friction to what is already a capital-intensive process. But at TexAmericas Center, that timeline is the

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Podcast 210: Turning a Military Base into a Manufacturing Engine with Eric Voyles

In this episode of the Econ Dev Show, Dane Carlson talks with Eric Voyles, Executive Vice President and Chief Economic Development Officer for TexAmericas Center, about how a former 8,900-acre military installation became one of the most innovative redevelopment authorities in the country.

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