While many local business owners are smiling, others say it's been a mixed bag. To be perfectly honest, computers frightened me. Amselam, who owns two sportswear shops has two land tracts under contract. Hitchcock is getting its first national fast-food chain. Highway 6 and FM 519.
Most business owners see a lot of governmental regulations as costly to the bottom line.
But Seabrook resident Doug Magee has found that some laws are proving profitable to his business. Caf Michael Burger is settling into new digs. The new location is 1.8 miles farther west from the eatery's old seawall site. One of the first rites of passage in the marketing and sales game is the exchanging of the business card. During tearful, sometimes angry testimony last week, Diane Duzich told a federal judge that accusations of bank fraud against her husband, Marion, damaged their Galveston restaurant business and their lives.