{"id":9457,"date":"2018-12-14T19:51:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T19:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=9457"},"modified":"2018-12-14T19:51:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T19:51:10","slug":"brownsville-port-opens-new-administrative-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=9457","title":{"rendered":"Brownsville Port Opens New Administrative Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9450\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9450\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_2994.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_2994.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_2994-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_2994-405x173.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Area officials presiding during the unveiling of the multi-million-dollar administrative building. Photo: Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>If it wasn\u2019t for the Port of Brownsville, the jobs situation in Cameron County and the Rio Grande Valley would be a lot of different.<\/p>\n<p>Since its creation in 1936, the deep water port has been a source of income for thousands of people and more jobs are on the horizon as the facility has gotten a new contract that is expected to create hundreds of new and good paying jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Business has been on the rise. Tonnage is up. New tenants keep coming in. Some 7,400 people work at the port on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>And officials said more than 44,000 indirect jobs are tied to the port businesses.<\/p>\n<p>In late October, port officials unveiled a new administration office complex that will last for years to come.<\/p>\n<p>The 21,816-square-foot, $5.4 million building was the result of remodeling two existing structures and a brand new one.<\/p>\n<p>Ed Campirano, the port director, said building the new complex will take the port into another era.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a great occasion for us and for everybody else,\u201d he said. \u201cThis new facility, speaks for the past, the present and the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>John Reed, the board president, said the BND headquarters was built by retrofitting two existing buildings and by making an addition with adding a new structure.<\/p>\n<p>He then talked about the thousands of jobs the port has generated over several decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis building is symbolic,\u201d he said, \u201cbut what is more important is the job creations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Port commissioner Ralph Cowen said the money to build the administration building was the result of saving $40,000 a week for several years.<\/p>\n<p>During a speech he made before a large crowd, he said the port has been a pivotal part of the region for job creation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dWe have taking thousands of people out of poverty and into prosperity,\u201d he said. \u201cThat is what the port is all about.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tony Vindell\/LFN If it wasn\u2019t for the Port of Brownsville, the jobs situation in Cameron County and the Rio Grande Valley would be a lot of different. Since its creation in 1936, the deep water port has been a source of income for thousands of people and more jobs are on the horizon as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9458,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9457\/revisions\/9458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}