Business View Civil and Municipal | April/May 2022

65 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3 PR INCETON, TEXAS who want to break into the city. “We get complimented, quite frankly, on the process,” Borg says. “My background is in development and I’ve seen both sides of the fence. My opinion is that we need to make it a smooth process for development and not create roadblocks.” To do so, Princeton has cleared away barriers to development and placed relevant city departments next to each other at city hall so that they can be in regular communication. They have also established a quick review process, so developers don’t have to lose time. Once the work has started, building inspectors are instructed to help developers work through any problems as they arise and help find solutions. “Our job isn’t to slow the process down,” Borg says. “Our job is to get you open. We have that mentality here. We want to get you open because we want you to succeed here.” In addition to their streamlined procedures, Princeton also relies on good old-fashioned relationship building to keep developers coming supposed to be way out of town, but now it’s not. And as it started to develop, it became apparent that it needs to be more of a business park for tech and perhaps medical, rather than industrial, because it got encircled by subdivisions close in proximity. Now, it’s about 50 percent sold out and we have got some really good users in there.” Even at only half capacity, the Bois d’Arc Business Park is slated to provide up to 500 new jobs for the city. The EDC has also been active in pursuing new tech and medical business to the community. They are currently in the process of working with a pharmaceutical manufacturing company that has the potential to add another 300 jobs to the area. The EDC is actively trying to offer what they can as far as grants to incentivize these business sectors to locate in Princeton. When it comes to housing, Princeton is putting in the legwork to make it easy on developers