Commerce, Texas

8 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 1 COMMERCE , TEXAS • Planning • Mapping – GIS & CAD Based • Water Facilities • Wastewater Facilities • Hydraulics & Hydrology • Environmental • Parks & Recreation • Roadways, Sidewalks & Trails • Surveying • Project Related Services 903.785.0303 I haytereng.com Originally founded in 1957 to provide planning, surveying, and engineering for municipalities and rural utilities, over our 64-year history our relationships have expanded to include commercial, industrial, and educational infrastructure. This broad experience base will allow us to collaborate seamlessly with your staff to gain an understanding of your needs and priorities, followed by developing a mutual plan to achieve each one. Our goal is to develop a long-standing relationship. We want you to feel confident in contacting us about each infrastructure need or question. To meet your required timing for each need, we pride ourselves on promptly responding to all requests. Through the experience and expertise we will provide, and the professional and timely way we will do so, we strive to become a trusted advisor. A testament to our service is the Texas Treasure Award bestowed upon our firm by the Texas Historical Commission. Although, founded in Texas, we also offer services in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana with further expansion ahead. Our services groups include: buildings. “I’ve got a million dollar project that I’m in the middle of right now to just improve some of the public spaces that facilitate events,” says Lisenbee. “We are actively trying to renovate the infrastructure for our downtown. The business climate started growing a couple of years ago, so it’s definitely coming alive in a very real and tangible way.” Collaborating with Streetlight Data, a data analytics company specializing in urban planning, Commerce has analyzed pedestrian and vehicle traffic within the community, which is much higher than the resident population. This information will be used to direct infrastructure investment decisions and attract commercial and residential development. Lisenbee shares, “They were able to produce some very powerful data for us, to show where the pedestrian traffic happens and where the