Gene Lindgren, President & CEO of the LEDC, recently attended the Binational River Park / Conservation Project Funding Contribution Announcement from U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar at Los Tres Laredos Park on the banks of the Rio Grande River.  Representative Cuellar organized the press conference to officially announce Rio Grande International Study Center’s recipience of the $2 million federal earmark. 

As a member of the Binational Working Group, this is an important milestone for this project as it begins to turn the project into a reality as it will preserve our beautiful river, provide security for Border Patrol in the form of line-of-site and mobility, and eventually provide a unique tourist attraction, a quality-of-life amenity for our region, and drive economic development downtown.