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  • Victoria Economic Development Corporation looks forward to providing you with the information you need to make an informed decision for your site location in Victoria, TX!
    Located directly on the future I-69 connecting to everywhere!
    Welcome to Victoria Texas
    Location, Location, Location
  • The Victoria College’s new $22 Million Emerging Technology Center is a clear signal to industry representatives of Victoria’s ability to prepare our workforce.
    Workforce & Training
  • Victoria’s free-flowing regional transportation network includes heavy haul roads, rail, inland barge canal, shallow-draft port, deep-water port, and a commercial airport.
    Logistics
  • Victoria, TX was selected as the site of the $200 Million North American Hydraulic Excavator Facility, utilizing the entire 320 acre campus of the Lone Tree Business Center.
    Caterpillar, Inc.
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Transportation

Often referred to as the “South Texas Crossroads”
Aptly named for its outstanding location on the convergence of several major highways, the well-planned regional transportation infrastructure offers a variety of choices including rail, waterway, and air to move raw materials, finished products, and people in and out of Victoria.

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Formosa $5 Billion Expansion Underway

Formosa Plastics Corporation Texas, in Point Comfort, is investing $5 billion into a plant expansion that will extend into Jackson County and provide about 340 jobs. The expansion will broaden the company's plastic resins product line and increase overall productivity, said Bill Harvey, company spokesman. Construction began about two and a half years ago and is scheduled to finish in late 2018.
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Texas Tribune CEO, Evan Smith, Discusses Legislation's Effect on Economy

Evan Smith, CEO and Co-Founder of the Texas Tribune offered a thoughtful perspective on the 85th legislative session as he presented Politics, Policy, Population: Where We Are & Where We Are Going to members of the Victoria EDC at their Semi Annual Membership meeting.
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Shale Energy Powers U.S. Manufacturing Growth

View Robert Tully, Venture Executive - Gulf Coast Growth Ventures for ExxonMobil Chemical Company as he addresses members of the VEDC.

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Exxon Mobil Executive Presents Shale Energy Powers U.S. Manufacturing Growth

Robert Tully, Exxon Mobil's Gulf Coast Growth Venture Executive addressed members at the VEDC Annual meeting indicating the economic outlook for the petrochemical industry is strong and Victoria remains high on the list of sites being considered for a new multibillion-dollar petrochemical facility.
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Exxon Mobil, Saudis look to create petrochemical venture in Texas

Exxon Mobil and SABIC, which have partnered for more than three decades in Saudi Arabia, are looking in Victoria as well as the Corpus Christi area, specifically San Patricio County, Exxon spokeswoman Margaret Ross said.
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Victoria vies for billion-dollar Exxon project

Victoria EDC continues the mission of marketing to industry representing primary jobs. Victoria County is one of four sites being considered for a multibillion-dollar petrochemical complex proposed by Exxon Mobil Corp. and Saudi Arabia Basic Industries Corp.

Dale Fowler

Submitted on Tue, 02/02/2016 - 16:07
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KPMG Site Location Consultant, Mr. Hartley Powell at the VEDC Semi Annual Meeting

Mr. Hartley Powell, Principal of Global Expansion Services at KPMG, LLP shares his insight on why communities should invest in economic development as he speaks at the Semi Annual membership meeting of the VEDC at the Victoria College Emerging Technology Complex. As a Senior Executive with a specialization in site selection and location analysis, Mr. Powell has more than 25 years' experience in economic development, industrial development, and state/local tax incentives.
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New Technology Complex Significant in Industry Recruitment, Development

Partnerships are important to successful community economic development efforts and the Victoria community has a great history of bringing the right partners together to make projects work. At the Victoria Economic Development Corporation (VEDC) we often tell our clients that while our organization does not own land or buildings, we possess many great partnerships that will help make their project a success in our community.

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Caterpillar Training Begins at VC's Emerging Technology Complex

Although Victoria College’s Emerging Technology Complex is still weeks away from its official opening, training has already begun in the state-of-the-art Industrial Training Center at the complex.

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Business Resources

Cultivating a business friendly environment

Community and regional support for business development is excellent and long-standing in Victoria. Competitive incentives including tax abatements, and training programs are designed to attract new business and industry to our community and VEDC will work to make your move to Victoria an easy one.

Victoria is home to one of Caterpiller's Manufacturing Facilities.


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Workforce & Training

Victoria provides employers with a skilled labor force
With a labor pool numbering over 185,000 potential employees within a 55-mile radius, Victoria leverages The Victoria College, Workforce Solutions Golden Crescent, and Texas Vocational Schools to deliver customized training skills to a ready labor force.
 

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Large Industrial Facility on Deep Water Port to Close
Dec 17, 2019
Alcoa Corporation, a global leader in bauxite, alumina, and aluminum products, today announced that it will permanently close its Point Comfort alumina refinery in Texas.
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Fowler Appointed Chairman of TEDC
Oct 18, 2019
VEDC President Dale Fowler will lead the state association of economic development professionals as Chairman of the Texas Economic Development Council's Board of Directors in 2020.
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Two Years after Fire, Diamond Fiberglass Rises from Ashes
Jul 02, 2019
The company is one of fewer than 10 companies in the U.S. and Canada that have an American Society of Mechanical Engineers Reinforced Thermoset Plastic Corrosion-Resistant Equipment Certification and they recently shipped two newly fabricated 21½-foot fiberglass containers from the Port of Victoria, confirming the local manufacturer has not only returned but surpassed previous production milestones.
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