COSTEP produces seven “virtual tours” to help promote Rio South Texas region

MISSION, Texas – The Council for South Texas Economic Progress has been promoting the region with seven “virtual tours” on its website for some time. Now it is promoting the videos on social media.

The seven videos, all under five minutes in length, highlight the strengths of the COSTEP region, along with the cities of McAllen, Brownsville, Laredo, Nuevo Laredo, Matamoros, and Reynosa.

“Explore the Rio South Texas region. COSTEP, the Council for South Texas Economic Progress, provides Virtual Tours of the region via video community profiles,” the group’s social media post says.

Here are the seven videos:

Regional Summit Video

Brownsville

Laredo

Matamoros

McAllen

Nuevo Laredo

Reynosa

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COSTEP’s CEO is Adam Gonzalez. On its website, COSTEP says “an exciting new day is dawning in Rio South Texas.” To capitalize, the group says it has broadened its organizational mission and its vision.

“For the past 49 years, COSTEP has helped local residents in the seven-county Rio South Texas region provide a better life for themselves and their families through educational initiatives such as helping fund millions of dollars in student scholarships and providing free financial literacy education programs. Now, COSTEP is advancing regional prosperity through the addition of a strategic framework for economic development.”

COSTEP says this framework is “data-driven and market-validated, with a strong emphasis on job creation and building a regional talent pipeline.”

The goal, the group says, is to create “a virtuous circle of education and employment to drive sustainable economic development in South Texas and prosperity for the region and its citizens.”

As for economic development in South Texas, COSTEP says there is now an opportunity for pivotal input.

“The new framework provides a platform for collaboration, allowing regional stakeholders to work alongside COSTEP to develop, complement and support initiatives to enhance outcomes not only for stakeholders but also for the betterment of individual communities as well as the region as a whole.”

For the private business leader and visionary, COSTEP believes it provides an opportunity to add their voice to the regional conversation to help drive results that uplift communities, help to guide economic development outcomes by taking part in the pioneering process of industrial recruitment unprecedented in scale for this region, and commit to investing in COSTEP’s ongoing capital campaign, demonstrating a passion for growing the regional economy and improving the lives of its citizens.

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