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Old 12-02-2016, 07:31 PM
 
Location: Beautiful Northwest Houston
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nearing 1 million cruise passengers a year and adding to Galveston's economic diversity

The Port of Galveston, the country's fourth-busiest cruise port, cut the ceremonial ribbon for the expanded passenger area at cruise terminal No. 2 on Wednesday.

The terminal now has two buildings connected by an enclosed, air-conditioned walkway. The space increased to about 150,000 square feet from a little less than 90,000 square feet. Seating increased to 2,000 from 500, allowing more people to escape the Texas heat, and there are 16 more check-in booths.

"I think it's going to enhance the cruise experience, make Galveston even more attractive," said Niels Aalund, senior vice president of the West Gulf Maritime Association.

These expansions come as the port continues to increase its cruise business. In 2014, roughly 642,000 people boarded cruises in Galveston. That increased to 834,616 last year and is expected to hit about 875,000 this year and 950,000 next year, Mierzwa said.

"I think that cruise terminal down there isjust a great economic engine for Galveston," Aalund said.

Galveston cruise terminal continues to expand as passenger lists grow - Houston Chronicle
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Old 12-03-2016, 06:22 PM
 
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Owner of Montrose art store pictured a vibrant future


The Texas Art Supply stores serve everyone from architecture students at the University of Houston and Rice University to worldclass painters like Justin Garcia and special-effects pros like Rudy Campos.
“They’ve got the biggest selection, the hard-tofind stuff,” Campos said. “I have a lot of different projects going on, and I hop from one project to the next. If I’m ever stuck, they’ve got a whole team of artists there to help me.”


“In 1970, Houston had barely 1 million people, and it didn’t have the diversity it enjoys today,” Adler said. “Today, Houston has a vibrant art community that’s supported by an ecosystem of museums, galleries, schools, trade shows and unique events like the Art Car parade.”


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Old 12-07-2016, 08:43 PM
 
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Houston area companies make valves for any application you can imagine. That's economic diversity!

NASA says thank you to Atec, a subcontractor based in Stafford

Atec builds, assembles and tests critical valves for rocket engines that launch satellites into space and will one day propel astronauts toward Mars. On Wednesday, the Stafford-based company's work was recognized by NASA's team for the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft.
"We cannot do what we do without the help of both large and small companies across the nation," Tracy Johnson, assistant program manager for NASA's Space Launch System, told a group of employees and representatives of other NASA contractors gathered at Atec headquarters. "And that's why we're here today, to say thank you."

The SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft are part of NASA's effort to send humans to Mars in the 2030s.
Atec provides cryogenic flow-control valves for the Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10 engine. The valves control the flow of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen until they're blended in the combustion chamber used to propel the rocket.

NASA says thank you to Atec, a subcontractor based in Stafford - Houston Chronicle
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Old 12-16-2016, 12:18 PM
 
Location: Beautiful Northwest Houston
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Developing Transportation, freight, and warehousing logistics will bring additional economic diversity to Greater Houston.

"Transportation, freight and warehousing company Jetco Delivery has expanded its delivery fleet and storage space by acquiring Associated Acquisition Co.

Arlington-based Associated's 45 trucks and 55,000-square-foot warehouse, including a LaPorte terminal, gives Jetco a combined 145-truck fleet serving the Houston, Dallas and San Antonio areas, according to a company statement.

Associated will operate as a subsidiary and keep its name."

Houston freight company expands, acquires Arlington business - Houston Chronicle
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Old 12-20-2016, 03:19 AM
 
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In the old Soviet Union, the economy was always wonderful. This should be the model for Houston. Project only positive news while discouaging all things negative. If they persist on speaking bad about the economy, put them on a train for a concentration camp to Detroit.
Same for Dallas.

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Is that the truth? Don't ask me. I know nothing. I can only say that during times when this nation's miracle economy isn't this nation's economy, it isn't.
Texas is anti-cyclical. When the U.S. is booming, Texas is in a recession. When Texas is booming, the U.S. is in a recession.

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Diversity comes about by biting the bullet. When people learn to endure and cope with stress, they become creative. The spending of social and corporate welfare deadens that creativity. At the same time, it is always good to tell the truth. The telling of bad news will always be perceived as good in time.
Only problem is the economy is declining. The money cycle is starting to slow down. People are not spending (or are spending on credit, which gets worse when the bill comes due). Retail is being hard hit now and it's starting to trickle back up to the top, manufacturing and producing. Too bad Dallas is a retail mecca. Neiman-Marcus and JC Penny liquidating would be devastating to the Dallas economy.

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If Houston put more emphasis on tech I think it would be VERY wise for them..

Not saying that there isn't tech there(HP in Spring area comes to mind), because there is, but more emphasis on it would VASTLY help them..
The tech industry will be long gone from the U.S. after Trump. Silicon Valley may move to the Fraser Valley or to India, China or somewhere else in Asia.

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That's a big reason for the strong, stable economy in Austin and Dallas
Not in the '90s though.
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Old 12-22-2016, 11:36 AM
 
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Vertical farming research and technology, adding to Houston's economic diversity!

MOONFLOWER Farms grows cilantro, arugula and other produce for more than 30 of Houston’s top restaurants. That’s where comparisons to traditional farming end.
“I’m a scientist,” owner and CEO Federico Marques said. “We’re a technology company.”
Moonflower Farms is Houston’s first commercial indoor vertical farm, using hydroponic technology to grow herbs and microgreens year-round without the need for soil, pesticides or large quantities of water. NASA has been interested in the process for years as a way to possibly grow food in space.

Marques, also one of the founders of Houston’s Ruggles Green restaurant chain, has tapped into a growing industry. Since March, Moonflower Farms has operated in a 900-square-foot space at 4523 Almeda-Genoa in south Houston. Marques said he is finalizing the permitting process to build a 20,000-square-foot hybrid indoor vertical farm and hydroponic greenhouse facility a few blocks away.

With major investments in countries such as China, India, Japan, South Africa and Australia, the market is expected to grow worldwide by more than 27 percent annually through 2022, according to Irish firm Research and Markets.


The Moonflower project has a global connection as well. Supplying the expansion project will be Australia-based engineering company A&B Hydroponics. The Houston project will mark its first foray into the U.S., company director Joe Argius said earlier this month.

Chad Sykes, CEO of Indoor Harvest, the Houston engineering and procurement company that provided equipment for the original Moonflower Farms facility, noted that the hydroponics’ association with marijuana farms has subdued U.S. investments.
Yet Sykes and Craig Lawson, managing director at MHT Partners investment bank, both see changes ahead. They see small investments already being made here, with bigger, more sophisticated investors monitoring the scene.

Moonflower Farms currently produces about 25 pounds of product a day, Marques said. But he aims to increase that yield to 1,000 pounds a day in the new facility and said he’s already gotten interest from wholesale grocers for his products should he be able to scale up production.
The new facility is expected to cost almost $2 million.
“If the model works, we want to put it in every city,” Marques said.
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Old 12-26-2016, 10:52 AM
 
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Johnson and Johnson TMC business incubator adding to Houston's economic diversity...

That's how it is in cancer and video games. The bad stuff just keeps coming.

Which is why two women, one from Texas, one from Belgium, joined forces to come up with an inventive way to let children with cancer visualize the fight going on inside them. Marrying the technology of virtual-reality gaming with medicine, kids can zap pretend rogue cells on their screen while chemotherapy takes on the real ones to save their lives.


"It is self-empowering. Instead of them just being passive and playing a game where they shoot things, it brings their focus back to what is happening to them. It makes it real," said Joowon Kim, a 36-year-old computer scientist and gaming industry veteran.

Korean-born and now living in Houston, Kim is co-founder of a unique start-up called OnComfort that offers virtual reality applications to distract, relax, and educate patients during difficult medical procedures. The products are being developed and readied for market through JLABS @ TMC, a life-sciences business incubator launched earlier this year by Johnson & Johnson and the Texas Medical Center.

Fighting cancer as child
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Old 12-28-2016, 12:20 PM
 
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A global information technology content firm establishes US Headquarters in Houston, increasing areas economic diversity . Announcement posted on their Facebook page below.


TWB_ the world pioneer in creating technology content expands into the US, Cameron Forch takes over as the CEO, TWB_ USA

TWB_ announced the opening of its US HQ in Houston, TX and that industry veteran Cameron Forch will be the CEO of TWB_ USA. For the worldwide pioneer in creating technology content offshore, this will allow closer support to US-based customers. Over forty Fortune 500 technolo...gy majors across the world and many exciting startups in the US, India, Europe, Taiwan, China & Japan leverage TWB_’s ability to re-imagine and re-use marketing, learning, and product content delivering unprecedented quality, time, and cost efficiency.


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Old 01-03-2017, 10:24 AM
 
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TMCx Accelerator and AT&T Foundry making technology work for "older" people and increasing Houston's economic diversity.

REGINA Vatterott never imagined creating a tech startup around smart pillboxes for baby boomers. The idea came from Abe Matamoros, whose grandfather grew sick after forgetting to take his pills three days in a row.


Their joint project, EllieGrid, a pillbox that sends text alerts to loved ones if a person forgets to take medicine, met its $40,000 fund-raising goal early on Indiegogo. The pair have now raised more than $59,000, acquired angel investors and made plans to begin manufacturing in Houston this year.

EllieGrid is just one example of how Houston’s startup scene is tapping into the emerging longevity market, a tech market geared at products and services made for the 50-and-over set.

“In the tech space, it’s not sexy,” he said. “Nobody wants to develop an app for a grandparent.”

Yet startups like iShoe, which makes balance scales detecting a person’s risk of falling, continue their work in the longevity market. The company, part of the inaugural TMCx accelerator class, sees opportunity in advances in the Internet of Things and products like wearable technology, CEO Katherine Forth said.

“The time is now to make technology to help older adults,” she said.

Earlier in 2016, Patrick Talley opened the first Houston branch of Aging 2.0, a San Francisco company focused on creating startup networks focused on longevity needs.

He cited the Medical Center; the AT&T Foundry, which has a focus on aging-in-place technology like floorboards that detect and send out an alert when someone has fallen; the city’s growing number of retirement communities; and the city’s baby boomer population.

Talley hopes to create relationships between startups, caregiving businesses and investors based in Houston to build up the market as experts say the next few years may show gains in investor activity.

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Old 01-09-2017, 10:23 AM
 
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The Houston Technology Center a non-profit org dedicated to increasing Houston's economic diversity.

The Houston Technology Center has tapped a longtime Houstonian with more than 25 years of banking experience and an impressive list of contacts to lead the nonprofit's next era of growth.
Lori Vetters will become president and CEO of the business incubator and accelerator on Feb. 1, replacing current chief executive Walter Ulrich, who is retiring after 10 years at the helm.

Finding capital will be one of her top priorities at the Houston Technology Center. Vetters said access to venture capital and seed funding is one of the biggest challenges for entrepreneurs. It's a major hurdle in Houston's efforts to become a technology hub, she said.
Local banking vet takes reins at HTC - Houston Chronicle
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