Haltom City has landed the first Costco Business Center on the west side of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.
The wholesaler will open a new Costco Business Center and Fuel Center at 4909 NE Loop 820 in early 2027. The nearest existing Costco Business Center is in Dallas.
The project represents millions in capital investment and will create more than 100 jobs with a minimum salary of $32 an hour, according to Costco.
Costco Business Centers include products familiar to regular shoppers at the larger locations, but also feature an expanded selection of bulk office-related items and restaurant equipment not typically found at the company’s standard warehouses.
Costco aims the business centers at owners of small to medium companies and at commercial customers such as restaurants, convenience stores and offices.
“This is a tremendous win for Haltom City and for the entire region,” City Manager Rex Phelps said. “Our council and staff have worked diligently over the past year to bring this project across the finish line. Costco’s decision to invest here reflects the momentum building in our community and the strength of Haltom City as a destination for business.”
At their April 13 meeting, the Haltom City Council approved tax incentives for the project requiring Costco to develop a retail warehouse facility of at least 100,000 square feet with a minimum capital investment of $25 million. The company also has to employ 125 people after five years.
The announcement joins a growing list of economic development wins for Haltom City, including the H Mart Plaza development and other commercial investments reshaping the community.
Costco is also adding several stores in North Texas, including one in Mansfield.
The Cleburne-Watergate connection
What does one of the nation’s top political scandals, described as a “long, national nightmare” have to do with a business-oriented Good Friday prayer event in Cleburne that just celebrated its golden anniversary?
A lot.
If you remember it, have read about the scandal or seen the Oscar-winning film, “All the President’s Men,” you know that in 1972 five men with ties to the White House were arrested breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. That string eventually unraveled to the point that President Richard Nixon resigned in 1974.
Several Nixon advisers traded their business suits for horizontal stripes, including Chuck Colson, special counsel to the president and known as Nixon’s “hatchet man.”
During his seven-month prison stretch, Colson read C.S. Lewis’ “Mere Christianity” and dedicated his life to spreading the word to others in prison. After he was released, he spoke at events around the nation about his journey.
It was at one of these events in Dallas that John Fletcher, then manager at KCLE radio in Cleburne, and Darrell Miles, a local banker in the same city, got the idea to start their own community prayer event. The pair didn’t just depend on divine intervention to create the event; they had done their market research.
“It seemed only logical, considering that Cleburne had a population of just over 16,000 at the time and was home to 56 churches,” Fletcher said. “Cleburne was known as a ‘church town,’ so we felt we would have a receptive audience.”
Within a short period of time, the Cleburne Christian Businessmen’s Club was formed, later renamed the Cleburne Christian Business Club. The organization holds a prayer event each Good Friday.
On Good Friday this year, the club celebrated 50 years of a spiritual event birthed by a scandal.
Incubator on demand
TechFW launched ThinkLab OnDemand, an online platform that expands access to the technology incubator’s startup framework.
TechFW, an innovation hub, developed the new platform with support from Texas Woman’s University’s Center of Women Entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneurs can validate their ideas and get assistance in determining whether to move forward, pivot or refine their concept. The $450 program consists of eight lessons that include concept validation, customer discovery, market evaluation and early business strategies.
ThinkLab OnDemand provides entrepreneurs a self-paced pathway to learn how to launch a successful venture.
The program is designed to educate entrepreneurs in early-stage idea development, helping them determine what they need to do before seeking investments or entering an accelerator.
The Cheyenne sequel
The Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne was a workhorse and one of the world’s most advanced helicopters during the Cold War era.
Now it has a sequel that will be built in Fort Worth.
The U.S. Army named the forthcoming Bell MV-75 tiltrotor the Cheyenne II in honor of the ancestor that predated tiltrotor technology.
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