Marshall's Business Future Makes Headlines

According to the January 6, 2005 edition of the Lone Star Eagle newspaper, Business Development's Outlook magazine has ranked Marshall/Longview the 17th best area in America for the location of new business and industry. Lou Ann Nesbitt, Executive Director for the Marshall Economic Development Corporation indicated in the article that Outlook, a national publication is a business magazine for site selectors that keeps an eye on business and economic trends and the best locations available for new and expanding industries.

MEDCO Chairman Louis Brock was quoted in the Lone Star Eagle saying he is quite pleased with the ranking. "It's great that the world has finally found out what a great place this is to locate and do business," he said. "A lot of cooperation and hard work to market this area has paid dividends and people are finding out about this community and what it is all about."

Board member T. D. "Rusty" Howell said there are several reasons why Marshall would receive the high ranking of affordability. "For industry, we have good quality labor and the facilities to screen and train labor," he said.

According to the The Long Star Eagle article, Outlook serves the world's fasting growing companies and is published by the World Economic Development Alliance. We're an economic development magazine that goes to economic developers and CEO's and other top executives of major companies, said Kimberly Dominguez, assistant editor. "Our circulation is about 30,000."