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Methodist Richardson Medical Center (MRMC) is knee deep in its $85 million additions of a parking garage, 5-6 floors including a new operating room (their ninth). The project is 3 months into the 18-month project. This next phase was originally planned for 2024, but growth in the communities has moved the trajectory up by 6 years. The daily census says the hospital is 100% occupied every day. The ...read more

The Richardson Economic Development Partnership (REDP) is producing educational workshops as part of this year’s goal to concentrate on leasing at least 1 million square feet of Richardson’s 2.3 million of large blocks of Class A&B office space. Targeted workshops have thus been held for key tenant rep brokers and property owners, a major Dallas area brokerage firm, in addition to a landlords' ...read more

Fake news! Whodunnit?Find the real truth and solve the crime at this year’s Murder Mystery supporting the Richardson Adult Literacy Center.RALC is a local nonprofit providing free ESL instruction to adults in our community.Celebrity stars include Marta Gomez Frey, Richardson City Council; Jeannie Stone, RISD Superintendent; Kirk Wilson, Dean Air Conditioning & Heating and Edward Renteria, Blue ...read more

Chamber Ambassador Kathy Rogers celebrates community and relationships. As owner/operator of Nothing Bundt Cakes in Richardson, “I love that I get to interact with the community every day as they celebrate special occasions and enjoy daily treats.” As a volunteer with the Richardson Chamber, “I love being an ambassador and getting to know the members of the chamber, especially through ribbon ...read more

We send our loving condolences to the family of Martha and Ron Ritter. Martha was chairman of the Chamber in 2002 and our Citizen of the Year in 1995. She was mayor of Richardson from 1983-1987. The former Richardson Mayor Martha passed away on Feb. 5, and Ron passed away Feb. 21. Ron and Martha Ritter's viewing will be from 3-6 p.m. March 25 at Restland Funeral Home, 13005 Greenville Ave., ...read more

Personal attention and business support are keys to business recruitment. And that’s how Mike Skelton, director of the Mayor’s office of international business, describes his success recruiting the latest foreign company now calling Richardson home. “Axionent is the latest foreign company to establish their U.S. presence in Richardson,” said Mike. “I met with the CEO of this Sri Lanka-based ...read more

Richland College receives TWC grant to train IT employeesThe Texas Workforce Commission has awarded Richland College a $523,089 Skills Development Fund grant to train 197 IT employees.Training under the grant includes business technical, general technical and non-technical training in subjects ranging from specific software applications to accounting to customer service and more. In addition to ...read more

A study of Richardson’s East Arapaho Transit Oriented Development (TOD) and Innovation District will determine the economic/competitive position and identify opportunities that could one day attract leading-edge anchor institutions and business clusters and revitalize the corridor. The study will look at work, life and transportation patterns; existing commercial real estate; desired ...read more

Mayor Paul Voelker, RISD Superintendent Dr. Jeannie Stone and Richardson Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Bill Sproull gathered at City Hall to officially kick off the new Richardson Mayor’s Summer Internship Program. The program, a collaboration between the City, RISD and the Chamber, will enable 50 incoming high school seniors to receive eight weeks of paid employment this summer at a ...read more

Learn from leading motivational speakers at Leadercast presented by First United Methodist Church and the Richardson Chamber of Commerce. Leadercast is the world's largest annual, one-day leadership event, with more than 100,000 attendees via simulcast at more than 700 locations across 20 countries. The program consists of inspirational speakers and their leadership-focused messages. It will ...read more

The Richardson Chamber of Commerce will host a candidate forum for Texas Senate District 8 in Collin and Dallas counties Feb. 27. Senator Van Taylor's departure to run for Congress has left an open seat in the Texas Senate. Hear from candidates for SD 8 and their plans for our region at a moderated candidate forum. Candidates Angela Paxton (R), Brian Chaput (D) and Mark Phariss (D) will ...read more

Richardson has won the 2017 fDi strategy award recognizing City’s soft landing services for international businesses   fDi Magazine’s year-end fDi Strategy Awards recognize “best of the best” from year’s award submissions; Richardson has previously earned honors three times in magazine’s bi-annual “American Cities of the Future” Awards   On the heels of being honored earlier this year, for a ...read more

Krishna Upadhyaya earned her blue Ambassador jacket for ambassador activities and was awarded in January. Krishna is the owner of the local PMI Star of Texas property management franchise. She has extensive experience in real estate in the Richardson area. She knows the schools for PISD & RISD and surrounding school districts. She has served on the PTA board for Otto Middle School and is ...read more

The Chamber continues to focus on fostering local businesses and entrepreneurs, by introducing two new programs to connect local executives in tangible ways – the Peerspectives program, and the Richardson Chamber of Commerce (RCC) Executive Advisory Board program.  The PeerSpectives program was created by the Edward Lowe Foundation, and has been operating for more than 13 years across the U.S. It ...read more

What began as a one-man shop almost 70 years ago is now one of the largest award-winning engineering and architecture  companies in the Southwest. The Richardson-based, employee-owned firm has 15 offices across Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Louisiana. Chamber Silver member, Halff has been a member of the Richardson Chamber for about 40 years.   Through a smart, agile management strategy, ...read more

RagingWire’s new Dallas TX1 Data Center has received “Design Team of the Year in the Datacenter Dynamics Awards, the most prestigious global award in the data center industry. TX1 was named a finalist in two categories for the Datacenter Dynamics Awards – “World’s Most Beautiful Data Center” and “Best Design Team.” The “Design Team of the Year” award recognized the architects, engineers, and ...read more

Real Richardson.com highlights the ways in which a Richardson lifestyle is attractive to young professionals. Introduced in July 2016, the website is now more informative, interactive and mobile-friendly. It’s a valuable tool for young families, millennial workers and recent college grads, as it provides information on living, working and experiencing Richardson with job opportunities, housing ...read more

Nine local businesses are being celebrated at this year’s Richardson EDGE awards at the 35th annual event, Wednesday, Nov. 15 at the Holiday Inn Richardson.  EDGE is the economic development growth and expansion initiative of the Richardson Economic Development Partnership (REDP). Each year, REDP, the Richardson Chamber of Commerce and the Richardson Rotary Clubs recognize Richardson companies ...read more

The Richardson Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce that class XXXIII of Leadership Richardson has been selected. The 2017-18 program year will begin in September.   The 42 members of Leadership Richardson will meet once a month to learn about Richardson and what it takes to run a city, while also developing their own leadership skills and building a network of civic minded ...read more

The Richardson Chamber hosted its second annual bowling tournament at chamber member Plano Super Bowl on Friday, June 16. The tournament, sponsored by Sooner Management, brought in more than 110 participants from the Richardson area.  The bowling tournament was started to bring chamber members together for an event during the summer heat, and was hugely successful thanks to the cooperation of ...read more

Congratulations to Mary G. Windsor, the Chamber’s Ambassador of the Month for June. Windsor joined the ambassadors program earlier this year.  “I truly enjoy getting to know the other members of the chamber,” says Windsor, “and I also like having a network of people and businesses that I can count on for myself and to refer to friends and clients.”  Windsor started her business, Grace by Design, ...read more

This article originally appeared in D CEO - Healthcare by Olivia Nguyen. Read more here. Methodist Richardson Medical Center has expedited plans and started construction on its $85 million expansion project. It will build its third cardiac catheterization lab at the center as well as a new parking garage. According to Methodist Richardson, it sped up construction plans due to “an increased ...read more

Richardson Chamber Member Roger Wakefield, owner of Texas Green Plumbing, won the American Standard Plumber Know How contest and will be their designated Plumber Expert, American Standard. Wakefield will be representing the Richardson community through social media posts in which he offers advice to the plumbing community nationwide.  “It is such an honor,” said Wakefield. “To be named the first ...read more

Sue Thornton is no stranger to creativity. She uses it in her business, and she uses it in her work with the Chamber. Sue is our Ambassador of Month, but that’s only part of her involvement with our organization. Sue also is a tri-chair for Early Net, the Chamber’s Wednesday morning breakfast networking event. Her job is to book the five-minute commercials. She has been a Chamber member four ...read more