Business View Civil & Municipal | July 2022

106 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 7 A ll roads lead to Henderson, Texas. Literally. The small city located in northwest Texas is at a major crossroads, with several state and federal highways passing through it. “We have 11 highways that come through here,” says Henderson’s Economic Development Manager John Clary. “Our main road through town is actually a seven-lane roadway. There’s not a lot of cities our size that carry that kind of traffic through, so that’s a pretty big deal. We are carrying a lot of traffic through Henderson, even though we are not on the interstate. It helps us with retail and selling gas and sundry products.” But it’s not just physical roads that draw people into Henderson – county seat of Rusk County. The city of 15,000 pulls people in and makes them want to stick around. They say it just “feels like home.” “It really does,” Clary says. “It’s a very clean city. We hear it all the time and we see it. People keep up their yards. We don’t have a bad neighborhood in Henderson. They take care of their homes and their properties and it Texas ‘FEELS LIKE HOME’