Next Boom Town

[bluedogok]

Bluedog, that makes sense, and I'm aware that SA has a lot of construction of course. The canal extension seemed interesting, although it didn't seem like so much a catalyst for development as I've seen in other cities that might qualify as upcoming boom towns. I always get the sense that SA is kinda stuck in the 90s and early 00s, at least in terms of trends.

There is no doubt "design wise" that San Antonio isn't Austin, DFW or Houston and they are still much more conservative, I think a bunch of that is because the military roots of what grew San Antonio to begin with. We are redoing a vacant multi-story building in Downtown San Antonio and have had to "tone it down" in the lobby from what we would have liked to do, which would have been fine here.

Don't discount San Antonio. With the decline of FL as a popular retirement destination, I can totally see San Antonio rising up to takes its place with the hill country nearby and the great health care facitilies in SA. In a lot of ways its becoming a cheaper alternative to Austin.

It already is with military retirees because of all the facilities there for them.

Houston and Dallas are also drawing a lot from that percent of the population. One of my friends shot a music video in Houston and she said that most of them moved there from other places.

Houston and Dallas have always been tht way, the majority of the people that lived in my apartments in 91-93 were from a radius from Chicago to DC to the Northeast. There were a few from smaller Texas towns, Oklahoma, Arkansas or Louisiana but the overall majority were from Chicago, NYC, Pittsburgh, Detroit, etc.