The goal of recruitment is to attract external businesses to Keller in order to create a robust local economy and ensure high quality of life for local residents. The recruitment process includes scouting potential establishments to see how they might fit in Keller as well as assisting businesses through the site selection and development process as they plan to make their move into our community. Incentives may also be offered to establishments moving into the city. All incentives are in accordance with the city’s incentive policies and are reviewed by the Keller Economic Development Board and considered for approval by City Council. Lastly, we have also partnered with retail recruitment firm, The Retail Coach. With their expertise in retail and market research, we have engaged many establishments to share what Keller has to offer.

There are many more and it’s clear to see that the successes can be contributed to our joint efforts. Thank you for being part of your community and in making Keller a great place to live, eat, shop, and work!!

Restaurant & Retail Survey

The Keller Economic Development Department has sought citizen input for new restaurant and retail ideas over the past several years in order to be very intentional with our recruitment efforts. We want to thank you for bringing new ideas forward as it takes all of us to make Keller a great place.

While many of the survey requests proposed shopping and dining establishments that are not a fit for Keller – based on the businesses’ opinion – we have enjoyed many very popular successes. Some of the reasons that businesses decline to come are: already in the Keller vicinity and a Keller location would only take away from existing clientele, they only locate in malls or close to freeways (i.e. Alliance Town Center), they are not expanding, or they are looking for a different character.

The successes enjoyed stated their reasons for locating here are: Quality of life focus matches their offering, competitive and complimentary existing attractions, and demographic/psychographic matches to an existing successful location. Our successes result from partnerships with brokers, developers and bankers or as from scouting missions to other communities.

We encourage you to take our most recent restaurant and retail survey. Click the link below and give us your thoughts on what would be a great fit for Keller residents. 

Restaurant & Retail Survey 2020