The Hub continues to expand

Haley Burks

What do tortillas and guns have in common besides Tech football? They are two new companies in town.

Todd Reno, Reese Technology Center Director of Business Development says: "We have more than 700 jobs and if you look at it, 1,200 civilian jobs left with the Air Force. And we have been able to bring back 700 of those. It's an exciting time."

Towner Manufacturing, which makes rifles and shotguns is the newest of 15 full-time tenants at the old air force base.

Reno says: "Just this week we finished the process with the BRAC commission. Now we are completely through with the Air Force. We are done."

While the Reese center focusing more on technology, to the north the Maca Flour Company is taking shape to bring more industry to Lubbock.

Marc Farmer, Director of Business Recruitment for LEDA says: "What we are good at is distribution center, manufacturing. We are pretty much what these guys tell us we are - the center of the United States. They can serve both east and west coast, have interstate capabilities."

Farmer says there are actually two parks under construction: the business park and the rail port where the flour factory is building.

Farmer says: "Foreign investment, instead of manufacturing centers are going out of the U.S. We have both a Mexican and Taiwanize manufacture that chose Lubbock."

One potential business needs your vote.

Farmer says: Proposition 4: If it passes in November, Lubbock will be home to a DPS forensic crime lab and DPS-style campus at the business park."

While many parts of the nation are not experiencing new rooftops, Reno says he believes Lubbock can continue to grow.

...One tortilla at a time.

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