FLOYDADA, TX – Over the past year, local businesses and others in the community have received over $87,000 in incentives through the Floydada Economic Development Corporation (EDC).
Some of that funding helped build the city’s pickleball court, added a new scoreboard at the shared city/FCISD baseball field, and the revitalization of the painted facade at the Floyd County Historical Museum.
Additional investments helped “a number of small businesses in Floydada, especially our restaurants, with everything from a new refrigerator, air conditioning systems, and even a new drive through” according to Ryan Crowe, Executive Director for the EDC.
“We have helped other businesses purchase new and needed equipment to keep them competitive and helped with funding to expand current facilities.”
He also explains that the Technology Center, located inside the EDC building on 5th Street, has reopened as a hub for the “Year 13” students who have committed to stay in Floydada as they pursue higher education through South Plains College and West Texas A&M. Though once used by Christian Women’s Job Corps years ago, “by providing these college students a home, we have facilitated a place they can study and work that’s not directly tied to the school they just graduated from.”
Speaking recently to the Floydada City Council, Crowe spoke about “winding down our similarly-aligned Floydada Development Center as its own separate non-profit, bringing such projects as the Welcome Sign and the Floydada Business Park under the single umbrella of the EDC.”
