The Samsung plant President Biden toured in South Korea is expected to be a model for the company’s new venture in Texas. His high praise came with a slight geographical mistake.
"Thanks for the incredible $17 billion investment that Samsung announced last May, soon to the United States to have facilities like this one that manufactures the most advanced chips in the world in Tyler, Texas," said the President."There is great history in Tyler, Texas but sorry Mi Amigo, you are not getting Samsung," said a smiling Williamson County Judge Bill Gravell.
Judge Gravell laughed off the presidential gaffe and said he appreciated the attempt at a compliment. But he also pointed out that major corporations have no problem finding central Texas on the map. For that reason, county leaders are trying to address infrastructure needs. "Ultimately Williamson Co is going to build and build out. What I don’t want us to do is become like Travis County that did a poor job in planning roadways and paths, so in Williamson Co we are ahead of the curve, but we are going to have to keep moving to stay ahead of the growth that’s coming," said Gravell.
For the city of Taylor staying ahead of the curve involves not paving over its small town charm. A big step in that is a new growth plan called Envision Taylor. It was approved a week before the Samsung announcement. To prove some additional protection to the town, Osborne said some modifications are now being made to the plan.
"But we feel really prepared, because we had been working on this, we've been working on addressing infrastructure issues. We had been working on trying to make sure that our land use in the city was equitably distributed and that we had a really, really good handle on how to make sure that our city could handle this growth both fiscally and physically over time," said Osborne.
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