Business View Civil and Municipal | January 2021

47 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL JANUARY 2021 MAKING DREAMS REAL www.howardcollege.edu 3501 N US HWY 67 SAN ANGELO, TX 76903 325-481-8350 SAN ANGELO, TEXAS to understand the risk barriers to growth, how to succeed at new market creation, and in what capacities the Chamber and COSADC can best assist these local enterprises,” says Looney. “It’s paid off great dividends.” Practically all the new businesses that have been recruited to San Angelo in recent years have been derived from a relationship delivered through an existing SARMA member. That’s because the SARMA program essentially “deputizes” its over 100 member companies into recruitment agents, collectively growing the region’s industrial base and providing industry intelligence to the Chamber EDD. “We’re constantly being introduced to suppliers and affiliated industries that work in a mutual relationship with our existing industrial workforce,” says Looney. “Our manufacturers and fabricators are helping us do what’s known as economic gardening, where economic development organizations care for and assist existing local industry. The force multiplier