Texas Business Incentives & Site Readiness Programs

Explore 3 incentive programs and 1 readiness program records for Texas, with descriptions and source links.

Texas Enterprise Fund & Texas Enterprise Zone

TEF is a deal-closing grant; Enterprise Zone provides state sales/use tax refunds for approved projects in designated/qualifying areas.

State: Texas

Program type: Deal-closing and place-based incentives

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Texas Jobs, Energy, Technology, and Innovation Program

JETI provides school district M&O tax limitation benefits for eligible large capital investment projects.

State: Texas

Program type: Property tax limitation

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Local Grants and Tax Abatements

Texas local governments may negotiate Chapter 380/381 grants and tax abatements for economic-development projects.

State: Texas

Program type: Local incentive

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Texas Available Site Inventory

Texas does not appear to operate a single statewide site-readiness certification program, but 1592 available development sites for this state are listed publicly, of which 36 are marked certified. Use the state economic development portal and the site listings to evaluate individual properties.

State: Texas

Program type: Online site inventory / available-sites database

Agency: Texas Economic Development & Tourism / Texas Economic Development Corporation

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No clear statewide certified-site/site-readiness program found

Texas appears to rely on local, regional, and utility-backed site tools. Targeted official-source checks did not identify a statewide certified-site or site-readiness program.

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