Mexico's Textile City Dies Slow Death

"Three years later, Textile City looks more like a ghost town than the thriving industrial hub envisioned by its creators. Smooth pavement and shiny street lights carve an incongruous path through weed-choked fields teeming with grasshoppers.

The infrastructure is in place. The textile companies are not.

Only seven of the nearly three dozen entrepreneurs who committed to building factories have followed through. Some have shut down. Others are struggling to stay afloat in their old plants."