Business View Magazine | November 2020

227 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2020 ROSENBERG, TEXAS into the City. It was a bold move on our part to partner with BWA, but the foresight will secure our ability to sustain our system amid continued residential and commercial growth.” “Infrastructure for new projects is crucial, as well,” Heath adds. “We’ve made a commitment to funding infrastructure expansion targeting commercial projects and primary job creation. In February 2019, we closed a deal with Dollar Tree International for construction of a one-million- square-foot distribution center on the west side of the City, and we funded more than $6 million to extend water and sewer service and improve roads to the site, which helped make the project happen. In turn, Dollar Tree committed to spending $150 million dollars on the facility, which will have a major impact on our overall appraised taxable value. At the grand opening in early September, they reported more than 500 new full-time hires. In the long-term, the roughly two-and-a-half miles of water line we extended to the property that runs along Interstate 69 and