Youth movement creating a night out in this Texas downtown
We all know the “Field of Dreams” quote, “If you build it, they will come.” In Beaumont, Texas, however, something of the opposite occurred: Millennials came, and Beaumont is building it.
“It” is a lively downtown, and its gradual revitalization is being driven in part by the influx of young employees ExxonMobil and other companies have hired to fill roles in the expanding refining and petrochemical facilities. The uptick in development is part of a large-scale initiative called Growing the Gulf that will see $20 billion invested along the Gulf Coast over the next 10 years...
