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Monday, June 8, 2015
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Continued from Page #3 chew on the idea of whether or not it would affect his engineering firm. With the life expectancy now going up, it was a major consideration and factor of whether or not this would affect his life beyond the mayor's office. "I'm not interested in making a career out of being mayor." said Williams. "I want to come in and help my community and get us moved to another level."
Arlington Mayor Jeff Williams that year that eventually became his wife Soon after college, he was recruited by several engineering firms and while wanting to get married, took a job and fell in love with engineering and the building communities. Williams had his civil engineering fingerprints on projects such as The Ballpark in Arlington (now Globe Life Park) and Cowboys Stadium (now AT&T Stadium), Southlake Town Square, Park Central at US75 and 635, Parks Mall in Arlington. He's also done parks projects such as River Legacy Park in Arlington and numerous others.
as Arlington where he still gives strategic direction even while serving his term as mayor of Arlington.
Williams as an engineer with a leading engineer firm, has been asked to recruit businesses from other large cities. One of those that he just finished was Nebraska "We have incredible attractions nd Furniture Mart in The Colony. He venues here in Arlington with Six says it will be the largest retail Continued on Page #10 Flags, Globe Life Park and then the Williams says that Arlington is not in bad shape, but is not to the high level that they need to be and want to be in his opinion.
It is most common for a mayor to be elsewhere employed while holding office. Former mayor of Arlington, Richard Greene, was the manager of Vandergriff Acura while serving as mayor from 1987-1997. It was Greene who reached out to Williams to recruit him along with dozen community leaders to provoke him to run for mayor of Arlington. Williams took a few weeks to
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"I just really enjoyed it and enjoyed working with the communities and design things." said Williams who decided not to go to law school and instead focus on his engineering career. That career began with the Arlington based company called Graham Associates in 1984, which he later purchased in 1988. Williams has expanded locations to Frisco and Fort Worth as well
greatest special events center anywhere in AT&T Stadium." said Williams. "But yet we have not attracted other entertainment venues or other businesses so to speak of to add to that and that's been very frustrating to the leadership in Arlington. I think they thought that when AT&T Stadium was built, that they would come. And you just can't sit back and wait on that. Other cities are too aggressive.
Jeff Williams' senior photo at Howe High School
