Department Overview

The Economic and Community Development Department's mission is to grow a livable, vibrant, and safely built City, where all people can enjoy a high quality of life and have an opportunity to grow up, live and age in a neighborhood that provides the basic systems to realize their potential.

To achieve this goal, the department focuses on shaping development through the following key strategies:

• Identify opportunities to expand the City's tax base, support job growth, and revitalize downtown to promote enhanced fiscal sustainability
• Create, monitor, and administer economic development performance agreements
• Provide professional analytical, professional, and administrative support to the New Braunfels Economic Development Corporation  
• Collaborate with all City departments to reduce barriers and align resources promoting economic mobility
• Support the development and sustainability of a healthy housing market through a comprehensive local housing strategy
• Lead, convene, network and organize community-wide resources  to reduce neighborhood disparities in access to economic opportunity