UP selects TexAmericas Center as new Focus Site

TexAmericas Center (TAC) in New Boston, Texas, has been selected as a Union Pacific Railroad Focus Site, a strategic designation aimed at increasing customers’ speed to market in the Texarkana region.

UP offers more than 30 Focus Sites across its network, which are designed to streamline operations, enhance efficiency and improve service quality for particular regions or commodities. Focus sites serve as hubs where UP can concentrate resources, manage logistics more effectively and provide targeted services to meet specific customers’ needs, according to a TAC officials said in a news release.

Earlier this year, TAC received a portion of a $15.4 million Texas state grant that will fund the upgrade of  locomotives used at the site.

The Focus Site designation's benefits include UP-approved rail design, a large-scale development area, accessible industrial scale utilities, truck routes to the site, local development support and a single point-of-contact that is also the authority having jurisdiction and the controlling land owner, said Eric Voyles, TexAmericas Center’s chief economic development officer and vice president.

“Union Pacific is excited about our partnership with TexAmericas Center and the opportunity to serve one of the largest rural industrial centers in the nation,” said Kenny Rocker, UP’s executive vice president-marketing and sales.