{"id":1228399,"date":"2023-05-19T08:29:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T13:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1228399"},"modified":"2023-05-22T04:22:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T09:22:11","slug":"mayor-warren-talks-growth-tylers-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1228399","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Warren talks growth, Tyler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s future"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"TYLER — The City of Tyler is growing and the growth isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t limited to just one area. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re seeing growth in residential and industrial and retail growth,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Scott Martinez, CEO, Tyler Economic Development Council. According to our news partner KETK, Mayor Don Warren says keeping up with the growth means tackling several major initiatives at the same time.\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lot of rabbits in the hat, and we just got to figure out which one we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to pull out next, but there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to be something that comes out of that,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Mayor Don Warren, City of Tyler.<\/p>\n

At the Tyler State of the City Thursday afternoon Mayor Warren said he is excited to get started on the downtown area. Adding it is the heart of the city and the hope is to attract more businesses. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153When a company is looking at different communities as far as where they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to make an investment, downtown really provides a barometer of the economic health of a community,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Martinez. Mayor Warren says Tyler can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t reach its potential if it can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t keep the brightest and the best here at home, and he says a thriving downtown can do that. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153And the hope is once we make the downtown investment that the buildings that are vacant now will become filled,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Mayor Warren.<\/p>\n

Another topic was improving traffic flow around the city by syncing traffic lights and fixing the roads. Currently, the city has finished re-timing lights at a 3rd of the intersections. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We will do another 18 this year, so the more we know, the better they will be,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Mayor Warren. Projects to widen major streets like Old Jacksonville and parts of South Broadway were also discussed. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153People were talking about traffic, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re constantly talking about traffic in the community, think about it, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no traffic, that means people aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t going to shop, they are going to work, commerce isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t happening, and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a healthy thing,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Martinez.<\/p>\n

Mayor Warren says he can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wait to see all the work completed and adds now is a great time to live in the City of Tyler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TYLER — The City of Tyler is growing and the growth isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t limited to just one area. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re seeing growth in residential and industrial and retail growth,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Scott Martinez, CEO, Tyler Economic Development Council. According to our news partner KETK, Mayor Don Warren says keeping up with the growth means tackling several major initiatives … Continue reading Mayor Warren talks growth, Tyler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s future<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1228402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/05\/MayorDonWarren-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Mayor Warren talks growth, Tyler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s future","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 22:07:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/05\/MayorDonWarren-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Mayor Warren talks growth, Tyler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s future","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1228399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1228401,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228399\/revisions\/1228401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1228402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1228399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1228399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1228399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}