Business View Magazine | April 2019

172 Today, Ennis serves as a manufacturing hub, a tourist destination, and a bedroom community serving the greater Dallas-Fort Worth Metro- plex. “We are on the fringes of the DFW area in north Texas, which is adding more people every day than any other state in the U.S. right now,” states City Manager, Scott Dixon. “Ennis finds itself right in the transportation triangle that connects Dallas to San Antonio to Houston and back up to Dallas, and Ennis is right inside of that triangle. It’s bordered by a lot of highways. We’ve got a 287 bypass, which comes on our southern side and I-45 runs north and south on our eastern side. So, there are a lot of folks moving right around the edges of our city, and we are experiencing ENNIS, TEXAS