Bazan announces 2nd Industrial Warehouse Summit

PHARR, Texas – Luis Bazan, director of the Pharr International Bridge, has announced details of Pharr Bridge Board’s 2nd Industrial Warehouse Summit.The summit takes place Thursday, Aug. 24, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. It will take place at the Pharr Development & Research Center in W. Dicker Road in south Pharr. The title of the event is IWS2. The subheading is: Building a Competitive Border Region for Near-Shoring and Industrial Growth.In his monthly report to the Pharr Bridge Board, Bazan said the summit is being jointly hosted by the Bridge Board and Pharr Economic Development Corporation. The emcee, he said, will be Jorge Torres, president and founder of Interlink Trade Services.Explaining the need for the summit, Bazan said: “One of the issues that has come to light here in the last a year or so is that regardless of trade, regardless of the ships and trade, there is still not enough dry warehouse space for industrial capacity to fulfill the needs of trade. So it is it is up to us to bring this to the region, invite our regional partners to ensure that we’re fulfilling that gap.”Bazan acknowledged that meeting the demand for more warehouse space in the Rio Grande Valley is not going to happen overnight. “But this is part of our educational process to bring everybody to the table, from bankers to investors to industrial warehouse developers. And in this case for this next one coming next week on August 24.”A new feature for IWS2 will be the participation of economic development corporations from other cities.Editor's Note:  Go to the Rio Grande Guardian International News Service website to read the full story.Go to www.riograndeguardian.com to read the latest border news stories and watch the latest news videos.