Domestic Expansion and Recruitment
Domestic Expansion & Recruitment serves businesses that want to expand existing Texas operations as well as out-of-state businesses interested in relocating or expanding in Texas. Domestic Expansion & Recruitment serves as a focal point for disseminating business leads to Texas communities.
Services:
Domestic Expansion & Recruitment facilitates business expansion and relocation into the state of Texas. Domestic Expansion & Recruitment serves Texas by:
- Responding to routine inquiries about the Texas business climate.
- Providing information on state incentive programs.
- Arranging contacts with other state agencies as needed by business and communities.
- Coordinating site visits for prospective business to Texas communities.
- Serving as a liaison between inquiring businesses and Texas communities.
Resources:
- A business looking to expand in Texas can request information from Domestic Expansion & Recruitment via email (please include a phone number), to LocateTX@governor.state.tx.us, phone (512) 936-0101 or fax (512) 936-0080, or form below.
- For expansion or location projects developed to the point where the project and site location criteria have been determined, please download our Site Location Requirements Form (or call 512/936-0101 and we will mail or fax you the form) and send it to the Domestic Expansion Recruitment office for assistance with the Texas site selection process. In the meantime, please visit the Financial Resources section for information that prospective businesses may find helpful during the information–gathering process of the site selection search.
Download: Site Location Requirements Form [256KB MSWord]
- Local Economic Development Contacts (follow link and select "Local ED Contacts" on the map menu)
Contact Domestic Expansion and Recruitment (DER):
Main Line: (512) 936-0101
Click staff names to contact by e-mail
Larry McManus
Manager
Tad Curtis
Team Leader
Phil Rocha
Location Specialist
Vera Puente
Location Specialist
Scott Smith
Location Specialist
Contact Regional Offices: Click here for map