{"id":385525,"date":"2026-07-24T20:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/385525\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T20:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:49:07","slug":"humble-city-council-awards-50k-to-partnership-lake-houston-through-annual-agreement-lake-houston-humble-kingwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/385525\/","title":{"rendered":"Humble City Council awards $50K to Partnership Lake Houston through annual agreement | Lake Houston &#8211; Humble &#8211; Kingwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofhumbletx.gov\/city-council\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Humble City Council<\/a> members approved the release of $50,000 in funding for area chamber of commerce and economic development firm <a href=\"https:\/\/lakehouston.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Partnership Lake Houston<\/a> at the council\u2019s July 23 meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The details<\/p>\n<p>The funding is coming through the city\u2019s annual funding agreement with the Partnership, which entails two payments of $50,000 per year.<\/p>\n<p>Owen Rock, PLH executive vice president of economic development, presented the Partnership\u2019s annual report to the city at the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy objectives and the economic development objectives that I have on a daily basis are looking at demographics, property research and databases,\u201d Rock said, noting the information is used to help existing businesses, as well as recruit new businesses to the area. \u201cWe also advocate for the community on flooding, transportation and any other issues that we need to be dealing with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A closer look<\/p>\n<p>Rock listed business retention and expansion among the Partnership&#8217;s main economic development objectives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe help any size business from small to large, and we connect them with the folks that they need to be talking to, whether it&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sba.gov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Small Business Administration<\/a> or the small business development centers in our local colleges\u201d Rock said.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Rock said recruiting and attracting new businesses to the area is a priority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have five target industries: distribution logistics, advanced manufacturing, life sciences, new energy and technology, and corporate business services,\u201d Rock said.<\/p>\n<p>Rock noted the Partnership is currently working on 25 projects that could potentially be brought to the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re looking to get maybe one or two, and they take time to get there,\u201d Rock said.<\/p>\n<p>Rock listed several major businesses that came to the area within the last year, including:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/lake-houston-humble-kingwood\/development\/construction-begins-on-eli-lillys-65b-manufacturing-campus-in-generation-park\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eli Lilly<\/a>, which is expected to create 4,000 construction jobs and 600 permanent jobsResilient Structures, which is projected to add up to 350 jobsWaste Management, which has already created 300 jobsAdditionally, Rock said the area added around 200 businesses within the last year, including several in Humble. Among the new businesses created in Humble include:\u201cWe continue to work with all those folks and keep that moving forward,\u201d Rock said.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s next<\/p>\n<p>Moving forward, Rock said the Partnership was working to bring additional businesses to the city\u2019s downtown area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe keep available properties listed in our database of all that&#8217;s available in the downtown area,\u201d Rock said. \u201cWe&#8217;re marketing it all the time, and it is important to all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Humble City Council members approved the release of $50,000 in funding for area chamber of commerce and economic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,17040,135960,135959,4409,32369],"class_list":["post-385525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-humble-city-council","tag-humble-new-businesses","tag-owen-rock","tag-partnership-lake-houston","tag-small-business-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}