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A company can find all the business services it needs in DeSoto. The area has many attorneys, accountants, insurance agencies and branches of major financial institutions. Nearby major retailers carry supplies, equipment, furniture and services to meet any business need. A variety of printers, copy centers and sign shops can help owners get the word out about their business. Employment agencies are also available in the area for those seeking new employees. Visit the DeSoto Chamber of Commerce website at www.desotochamber.org and click on Member Directory for quick links to member businesses.

Commercial development in DeSoto has remained strong and steady in recent years. However, the city has particularly experienced an abundance of activity in the hotel business. Newly built hotels include the Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites at Wintergreen & I-35E, the Hampton Inn & Suites at Centre Park Boulevard and I-35E the LaQuinta Inn & Suites south of Pleasant Run Road on the west frontage road of I-35E, and TownePlace Suites by Marriott at Highway 67 and Wheatland Road. Additionally, the former Holiday Inn at I-35E and Wintergreen was purchased by a firm out of Odessa going through over $2 million of extensive renovations while becoming the MCM Grande Hotel/FunDome.

Other key commercial development projects include a potential new retail power center south of Belt Line Road on I-35E, a recently completed shopping center and grand entrance into the city on the southwest corner of I-35E, a planned 37,000- to 60,000-squarefoot shopping plaza adjacent to the Wal-Mart on Belt Line, a potential mixed-use development at Wintergreen and Cockrell Hill and the Trammel Crow High Street Residential mixed-use project at City Hall.

Significant growth is also taking place in the city’s medical area. Quorum Equities Group, LLC is developing a $40 million medical office park at U.S. Highway 67 and Wheatland Road by Methodist Charlton Medical Center. At full build-out, this multi-phase development will include a long-term acute care hospital, a medical office building, medical office condos and commercial pad sites, which house the extended-stay TownePlace Suites by Marriott, restaurants and other commercial service facilities.