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Katy  Area EDC is now on Facebook.  Become a fan at:   http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=117291208295087#!/pages/Katy-TX/Katy-Area-Economic-Development-Council/351688962381?ref=ts .

Pointsmith, a major point of sale marketing company that employs 100 people, is moving its headquarters and manufacturing to the Katy Area.  Pointsmith has purchased 10 acres in the Primewest Business Park where Academy is located and plans to double its size and build a 241,000 sf building.  The EDC has worked on the project since winter of 2008.  Currently, the EDC has helped identify incentive and assistance programs for the Company that it may pursue.  

Pointsmith, a major point of sale marketing company that employs 100 people, is moving its headquarters and manufacturing to the Katy Area.  Pointsmith has purchased 10 acres in the Primewest Business Park where Academy is located and plans to double its size and build a 241,000 sf building.  The EDC has worked on the project since winter of 2008.  Currently, the EDC has helped identify incentive and assistance programs for the Company that it may pursue.  

The Task Force unveiled detailed strategies designed to put the issues related to the flawed contract award of the FMTV vehicles quickly in front of decision-makers in Washington. We received messages of strong support from the offices of Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, Sen. John Cornyn, Congressman Michael McCaul, and Texas Gov. Rick Perry, all of whom are actively concerned and engaged in our cause to expose the errors made by the U.S. Army process that led to Oshkosh wrongly receiving the $3 billion contract award. 

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On June 17, Frank Lombard and I attended the private Grand Opening and Open House for Kraton Polymers New Innovation Center located at 16400 Park Row blvd.  The Kraton Team did a fantastic job of renovating the former Reliability Building which has been vacant for many years and has turned it into a world class research and development facility.  Kraton employees were ecstatic about their new home and Vice President Lothar Freund and Chief Operating Officer David A. Br