City marks Accent Food groundbreaking
Pflugerville officials welcomed another company’s corporate headquarters to the city Thursday with the groundbreaking of Accent Food Services’ new facility.
The company is one among more than five in the past two years that have moved their headquarters — some regional and some corporate — to the city.
“We were talking about a regional headquarters in the beginning and that’s the way our performance agreement was written. But guess what? This is going to be their corporate headquarters,” said Amy Madison, the Pflugerville Community Development Corporation’s executive director.
The city’s agreement with Accent Food Services to build its new headquarters at 2919 A.W. Grimes Blvd. received Pflugerville City Council approval in March.
The company, which was founded in Austin, had its previous Texas headquarters just outside Pflugerville city limits. The Pflugerville Community Development Corporation, a quasi-governmental agency dedicated to growing the local economy, brokered the incentives agreement for the move.
A fresh food commissary, Central Texas operations and training development center also will be housed at the headquarters.
Accent is expected to invest at least $4 million during the term of a five-year agreement to build a new 55,000-squarefoot office, warehouse and distribution center. The company plans to relocate 85 full-time employees from the current location by December 2018 and add five employees every year beginning in 2019 through 2022.
Accent will receive as much as $150,000 over five years if requirements are met in the incentives agreement. The incentives are capped at $30,000 per year.
Accent CEO Josh Rosenberg has said the company recently hired a “substantial number” of new employees and expects the new facility to host more than 150 employees.
The company serves various area entities including the Pflugerville school district, Austin Community College, Travis County and the city of Austin, as well as the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate in Washington, Rosenberg said.
Patricia Gervan-Brown, Pflugerville Chamber of Commerce president, called the deal with Accent a “great example of recruitment and retention in our market.”
“So when they decided they needed an expansion, PCDC and the City Council worked very hard to keep this great business here that is growing rapidly,” she said.
At the groundbreaking, Mayor Victor Gonzales welcomed the new business to the city.
“It’s a partnership among everybody with the economic development corporation, the city of Pflugerville, our development services, our (emergency services district) — they’re all working together; they’re all growing,” he said.