Business View Civil and Municipal | April/May 2022

61 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3 PR INCETON, TEXAS are probably on track for about 2,500 this year.” That growth experienced in recent years isn’t taking the city by surprise. Princeton’s motto is “progress with purpose” and a multitude of people have been working hard to set the wheels in place to help the city achieve greatness, while still offering that small town community feel. “Regardless of how much we have grown, we’ve still been able to keep our culture alive here and still harness that small town mentality and that feel where you can sit outside with your neighbors and everyone has that community aspect,” Chacon says. “But we are also paving the way to be on the forefront of being a smart city and just being happy with all the growth. I’m very excited for where our city is heading.” Progress has been swift and the city’s newest residents have only managed to enrich Princeton’s culture, rather than detract from it. “We were a small farming community for many, many years, historically, but that’s not where we are anymore,” Chacon reports. “We are extremely culturally diverse. Just within the past year, we had 60 families of southeastern Asian descent move to Princeton. We have so much more diversity than ever before and we are harnessing that and making the city richer because of it.” The city council itself has welcomed a new level of diversity. Chacon is the first female mayor to sit at the head seat of Princeton in over 20 years. She’s also the second youngest Mayor in all of Texas. “That alone is wildly different from where the city has been before,” Chacon shares,