ZacTax is a full-service, cloud based analytics platform dedicated to helping cities, counties, and special districts make better decisions with data. Our flagship sales tax analysis platform includes everything you need to become the resident sales tax guru. We take the Comptroller sales tax confidentiality report and give you a detailed overview of each month’s sales tax data by taxpayer, industry, and geographic region. We take the pain out of cleaning and parsing your monthly data and instead allow you to focus on using the data. Our new property tax platform gives you the ability to evaluate your community’s property wealth in such a comprehensive, easy-to-use way. The powerful geographic tools ZacTax brought to sales tax have been taken to a new level for property tax. We help you tell your community’s story one neighborhood at a time. Realtime, ad hoc querying lets you slice and dice your data however you wish. Want to know the average price-per-foot for homes on 3⁄4 acre lots built in the ‘90s with at least 4 bedrooms? We’ve got you covered.
Traylor & Associates
Traylor & Associates is the longest-serving grant management firm in Texas, providing funding solutions and quality professional services to local governments since 1974. The firm helps mid-sized cities and other smaller local governments access state and federal sources of financing for needed community projects including community development, economic development, disaster recovery, infrastructure, and housing projects. Today, with offices in Tyler and Newton, Texas, Traylor & Associates has served more than 200 entities throughout Texas and administered more than $1 billion in federal and state funds.
The Retail Coach
The Retail Coach is a national retail recruitment and development firm that combines strategy, technology, and more than 35 years of creative retail expertise to develop and deliver high-impact retail recruitment and development plans to local governments, economic development organizations, and private developers. | The Retail Coach is a national retail recruitment and development firm that combines strategy, technology, and creative retail expertise to develop and deliver high-impact retail recruitment and development plans to local governments, economic development organizations, and private developers. | We help cities and economic development organizations identify new retail opportunities, then recruit those retailers and restaurants to their communities.
Texas Water Development Board
Water for Texas! The TWDB is the state agency charged with collecting and disseminating water-related data, assisting with regional water and flood planning, and preparing the state water and flood plans. The TWDB administers cost-effective financial assistance programs for the construction of water supply, wastewater treatment, flood control, and agricultural water conservation projects. Email: Financial_Assistance@twdb.texas.gov Email: twdbcommunications@twdb.texas.gov
Texas General Land Office
The Texas General Land Office Community Development and Revitalization is administering the State of Texas’ Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery and Mitigation Programs totaling more than $14.3 billion. Learn about our funding opportunities, recovery programs, and how we assist in disaster recovery.
Texas Downtown
Come visit Texas ONLY Statewide Organization dedicated to ALL Downtowns! Texas Downtown (TXD) comprises a diverse group of partners and members, including economic development corporations, downtown managers, small business owners, and entities that support downtown transformation. Our goal is that every community in Texas has economically vibrant districts that reflect its unique character. From small-town Texas members to Big-City partners, we want you on our downtown Texas team. Started in 1985, Texas Downtown has empowered downtown leaders with the resources, advocacy, education, and connections they need to drive transformation and revitalization. We support the development of vibrant, thriving districts that celebrate local character, strengthen communities, and foster a strong sense of place. Our members are dedicated to downtown development and revitalization. By joining Texas Downtown, you are connected with a network of passionate downtown advocates and access to information and resources that will benefit your downtown and community. Our member have access to an incredible network of industry professionals, member services including: Downtown Assessments, Strategic Planning/Coaching, Board Training, Resource Directory, discounts on Regional Roundtables and Annual Conference, as well as one of the most incredible list-serv, communities that provide invaluable (R & D – Rip Off and Duplicate) practices, templates and shared resources. We’d love to meet you!
Texas Demographic Center
The Texas Demographic Center (TDC) functions as a focal point for the distribution of Census Bureau information for Texas. The TDC is part of the national State Data Center (SDC) partnership program through the U.S. Census Bureau and supports efforts in the areas of geography, product testing, survey participation, community partnership building, and other programs. TDC serves as the lead state data center and coordinates a network consisting of coordinating agencies and state and local affiliates. The TDC provides the following services to state and local governmental units at no cost: Annual estimates of the total populations of counties and places in the State and estimates of state and county populations by age, sex, and race/ethnicity; Biennial projections of the population of the State and all counties by age, sex, and race/ethnicity; Reports, briefs, maps, and presentations on demographic trends and projection; Training and technical expertise in the use of data from various sources; Demographic web applications and dashboards; and Custom data analysis for users with specific demographic research questions.
Team Texas
Founded in 1986, Team Texas is the member-based state business attraction program through Texas Economic Development Council, the professional association for Texas economic developers. Our mission is to create opportunities for job creation, increased investment, and economic diversification as a team of future-focused and collaborative Texas communities and partners. Our vision is for Texas’ continued economic strength and promotion of Texas as the best state for a myriad of industries to the benefit of the residents and employers in our communities.
TallWood Design Institute
Advancing Timber in the Built Environment. A partnership between the College of Forestry and Engineering at Oregon State University (OSU) and the College of Design at the University of Oregon (UO), the TallWood Design Institute is one of the nation’s first interdisciplinary research collaboratives focused exclusively on the advancement of mass timber and other wood product building solutions. Through diverse faculty expertise, cutting-edge facilities, and dynamic partnerships with manufacturers, designers, and other stakeholders, TDI oversees a wide range of testing and applied research and provides unique educational opportunities for a growing mass timber workforce. At the core of TDI’s strength is the power of partnerships and science. TDI collaborates closely with public agencies, industry stakeholders, and our faculty partners to drive a strong applied research program. Our research agenda aims at quantifying, qualifying, and advancing the performance of mass timber products and building systems with near-term and practicable results in mind.