Business View Magazine | August 2020

175 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE AUGUST 2020 DOUGLAS , AR I ZONA whether they sit with us or they call us, we always make sure they get that.” At present, Huish admits that Douglas lacks a mature, skilled workforce, but to make sure that new businesses have that skilled workforce at hand, the city has developed partnerships with Arizona@Work within the Arizona Commerce Authority, the Arizona Workforce Connection, and Cochise Community College. “They are ready, willing, and able to help train some of those people and get them ready for any type of industry that would want to come here,” he says. “We also have a presence of the University of Arizona, here in town, so all those partners are with us to assist any type of business that would want to come to town that needs some specific training to accomplish their goals.” “And we would love to attract more of the border technology firms,” Watson adds, “because we have the right atmospheric conditions, and we have the open, pristine, undeveloped land all around our area. We’re open for business; we have a lot to offer; we have great prices on land; we’re easy to do development agreements with. Our door is open and we hope that people would come here, and do good things, and bring a good workforce. We’re working to get more amenities here for people. We’ve got all of that here in little pieces, but we’d like to expand it and create a broader community for the new ones to come in.”