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UTRGV/San Benito Link Boosts Growth

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Ramiro Aleman has worked since late 2022 to promote San Benito's central county location as the city's EDC executive director.

Aracely Salinas’ medical uniforms business in San Benito has done well for itself over the last five years, getting established and now hitting a marker where it needs a boost. The San Benito Economic Development Corporation is helping with that aspiration. Salinas is one of 10 participants in a Kauffman FastTrac program, an intensive seven-week course taught by UTRGV instructors at the EDC offices. It’s a nationally acclaimed program that…

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UTRGV Takes Expertise To Cities

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Ramiro Aleman picked up on a key element missing in San Benito when he was recently named executive director of the city’s economic development corporation. “There was no presence of UTRGV in San Benito,” Aleman recalled thinking when starting his new job last fall. “How can we change that?” On March 30, Aleman and his board welcomed UTRGV’s Office of Workforce and Economic Development to San Benito. The start of…

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