Buy Local

You hear us say it all the time.  Buy local, buy from members!  We at TABA proudly recommend folks do business with our members on a regular basis.  Our members are, to a large degree, family owned and operated small businesses.  To a larger degree, they are committed to our area and seeing it prosper. 

The leaders of this organization work not only toward sustaining our industry and assuring jobs for thousands of folks, they work to make our community more attractive and inviting to all.  This in order to entice growth that will be beneficial to the Temple and Belton area for generations.  These leaders of ours wear many hats.  You'll find them not only serving on TABA boards and committees, but on city and school boards as well.  Regardless of the color ball cap they wear on Friday night, they all care deeply about the overall well-being of our community.  They live in Central Texas, shop in Central Texas, go to church in Central Texas, raise their children in Central Texas and pay taxes in Central Texas.  It is those tax dollars that provide the revenue base for the school, city and county services that we all need and use.

For this reason, we not only ask people to do business with our members, we also advocate that our government do business with local businesses.  Whether it be in determining which engineering firm to award a contract to or which architect to design a project, we believe if the service can be adequately provided through a local firm at a competitive price, we believe the contract should go to the local firm.  The government contracts help sustain and grow these professional service firms.  They also help sustain the local businesses the firms contract with.  Additionally, the dollars that are earned in our area by local companies, stay in Temple moreso than they would should they be contracted to an out of area firm.  More often than not, the out of town firms would complete the job and then go home to support businesses in their community.

This is the drum beat we march to at TABA and we will continue to do so as long as we are encouraged to do so by our members and our partners throughout the community.  The Temple Area Builders Association is only as strong as our members.  When you succeed, we succeed.  We work hard every day to help maintain a favorable business climate for you to do business in.  Please let me or Cheryl know if there is anything we can do to better serve you.

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