WILMER, TEXAS: Wilmer Leads Southern Dallas County Surge
An industrial boom has unfolded in southern Dallas County, Texas, and the City of Wilmer — first established as a railroad stop 155 years ago — is in the thick of it.
Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine
Adam Bruns is editor in chief and head of publications for Site Selection magazine, where he served as managing editor from February 2002 until fall 2023. In the course of reporting hundreds of stories for Site Selection, Adam has visited companies and communities around the globe. A St. Louis native who grew up in the Kansas City suburbs, Adam is a 1986 alumnus of Knox College, and resided in Chicago; Midcoast Maine; Savannah, Georgia; and Lexington, Kentucky, before settling in Greater Atlanta with his wife and daughter.
e-mail: Adam.Bruns@conway.com
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