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City of San
Antonio Economic Development Department
Press Archive
May 2009
SBA honors City's small business advocates.
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March 2009
Valero named in top ten of Fortune 500 annual rankings of
America's largest companies.
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February 2009
Frost, IBC among the best performing banks in America.
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Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)
still riding high in down economy.
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January 2009
Cullen/Frost CEO expects
company will weather recession.
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Three San Antonio firms dubbed best places to work by Fortune
Magazine.
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December 2008
November 2008
Forbes.com names San Antonio ranked 2nd of 10 best-value cities in
the US.
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October 2008
San Antonio adds jobs; Texas reports first drop in 16 months.
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Perry puts cash behind San Antonio's lab bid.
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$600K grant to help revitalize St.
Mary's neighborhood.
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UTSA's cyber-security center to get another $3.5 million.
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Kinetic Concepts gains FDA approval for tissue repair product.
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USAA earns strong rating despite national economic crisis.
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September 2008
San Antonio arts community has a
big-dollar impact on the city.
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Fortune Small Business Ranks San Antonio No. 34 of 296
places to live and launch a business.
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San Antonio joins
Inc.com's list of top 10 best large cities to do business.
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June 2008
San Antonio's Toyota plant youngest to win JD Power Quality Award.
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City of San Antonio Business Retention Expansion program helps to
add 500 jobs to Eastside.
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May 2008
San Antonio No. 2 on list of top "recession proof" cities.
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Texas now tops in big business.
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April 2008
KCI enters the wound care market with acquisition of LifeCell.
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March 2008
New Fortune 500 Company in San
Antonio.
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Fortune Small Business Ranks San Antonio No. 34 of 296
Metropolitan Ares studied for entrepreneurial market.
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San Antonio's economy still growing according to Dallas Fed.
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January 2008
Forbes.com
ranks San Antonio 11th in best cities for jobs in 2008.
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Forbes
lists two San Antonio companies in the top 100 places to work.
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December 2007
San
Antonio is now riding the crest of a broad, diversified boom that
is unlike anything Texas has ever seen.
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November 2007
San
Antonio's military sector — including retirees — pumps more than
$13 billion into the local economy.
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September 2007
Boeing
Support Systems San Antonio to hire 200 additional workers for
renewal of a 10-year, $1.1 billion maintenance contract for the
KC-135 Stratotanker.
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CPS,
San Antonio's municipally owned energy company, is
recognized by Site Selection magazine for economic development
success in 2006. CPS is the only utility in the State of Texas to
receive this designation.
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By the year 2035, there will be over 600,000 more people
in Bexar County. As our area grows and new jobs are created, our
transportation needs increase as well. For this reason, the
Metropolitan Planning Organization is updating the Metropolitan
Transportation Plan out to the year 2035. We need YOUR input.
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August
2007
CNNMoney.com runs down the best types of jobs in the
long run. Among tech hotspots San Antonio is ranked No.1 for job
growth among college educated professionals in IT and business.
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San Antonio found to be one of the most cost competitive
US locations for data center operations .
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City Council approves an ordinance to Rackspace Managed Hosting
from its headquarters to the former Windsor Park Mall complex.
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Texas Ranks
2nd as CNBC looks at the best -- and worst -- states for business on
40 different measures of competitiveness in a new study.
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Chicago-based
Boeing (NYSE: BA) will hire 400 new employees at its site in San
Antonio to perform modifications work on 11 Boeing 787 aircraft once
they roll off the assembly line in Washington.
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USAA ranks top in
the nation in customer service
according to Forrester Research Inc..
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TerraHealth named America's No. 1 Fastest Growing Inner-City
Company.
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Genzyme recognized by President Bush with National Medal of
Technology, the nation’s highest honor for technological
innovation.
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New program offers $22 million in financial incentives to lure
movie production to Texas.
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Industry Week features the impressive growth of the manufacturing
industry in San Antonio citing an 8.13% increase in the
manufacturing workforce from February 2005 through February 2007.More.
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The City of San Antonio grants $100,000 to
the Texas Research and Technology Foundation (TRTF) to help launch
the McDermott Pre-seed Fund.
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April 2007 |
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Business 2.0 Magazine has recognizes San Antonio
as one of five national hotspots for knowledge workers
based on job growth rates for college educated tech and
business professionals.
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