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| Christus Santa Rosa Hospital — Westover Hills and Trammell Crow Co. are planning to build a three-story medical office building next to the hospital at 11212 Texas 151. |
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| The first floor of the long-delayed Alteza condominiums atop the troubled Grand Hyatt San Antonio will be ready for move-in next month and The Broadway, north of downtown should open in mid-June. |
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| Baptist Health System announced Wednesday that it plans to open a hospital in 2012 on 56 acres it acquired off of Interstate 35 near FM 306 and Freiheit Road. |
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| Even with San Antonio's unemployment rate at its highest level in at least 20 years, recruiters for the U.S. Census Bureau are desperate to fill thousands of temporary job openings as the once-a-decade head count gets under way. |
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| The length of time homes stay on the market in New Braunfels and Comal County is only a few days more than the average, about 132 days from going to market to closing a deal. |
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| Two long-range planning documents that could have a significant impact on future growth and development in and around Boerne will be presented at an open house March 23. |
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| Dozens of homeowners in a Northwest Side neighborhood where the ground shifted and a retaining wall collapsed have asked Centex Homes and its parent company Pulte Homes to buy back their homes. |
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| Hurrying around the room greeting and exchanging business cards with everyone there does little to grow their network. It may increase the number of contacts in their contact list, yet it does little to create lasting relationships. |
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| Airport officials announced they have opened accounts with Facebook and Twitter to improve communications with local and out-of-town travelers. Concessions discounts and contests will be part of the information conveyed through the links. |
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| A new economic development entity proposed in Kerr County took its first formal step toward being established Tuesday, with unanimous backing by the Kerrville City Council. |
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| Instead, the revamped Hills of Castle Rock will have no more than 550 homes on the 1,766-acre parcel, all served by septic systems, with at least 700 acres of green space. |
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| This week's opening of a threat-analysis center in San Antonio is being touted as the latest example of the city becoming a cybersecurity hub. |
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| The Texas Department of Transportation is working on two separate projects to improve more than six miles of FM 306, northeast of Canyon Lake. |
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| The New Braunfels City Council will consider cutting off requests for permit parking zones Monday in order to save room for the large numbers of cars that arrive during the busy summer tubing season. |
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| When the Phoenix Saloon officially opens its doors next month, the live-music venue and chili parlor will exemplify the kind of growth this city is hoping to boost with its recently approved Downtown Implementation Plan. |
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| But January is nearly always a lackluster month for home sales because colder weather keeps potential house hunters indoors and, as children return to school after the holidays, families are reluctant to uproot themselves at the beginning of the semester. SABOR officials are hopeful the market will gain momentum this spring. |
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| Mortgage lenders are moving to take back 1,378 Bexar County properties in March, up 25 percent from last March, and have filed to foreclose on 4,346 properties in the first three months of the year, according to Foreclosure Listing Service Inc. |
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| As 2009 came to a close, San Antonio's retail real estate market saw an increase in activity but rental rates fell, according to a report Friday by NAI REOC San Antonio. |
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| The owners of Tapatio Springs Golf Resort are trying to attract investors to pay off $15 million in debt by March 2, when the parcel is slated to be sold on the steps of the Kendall County Courthouse. |
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| Allstate expects to begin operations in early May in a 75,000-square-foot, $11.6 million facility at The Oaks at University Business Park at 12238 Silicon Drive on the Northwest Side. |
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| Approved for recommendation to the Boerne City Council were development plats for Hill Country Daily Bread’s 10.137-acre tract at the northwest corner of Cascade Caverns Road and Ranch Road and for Boerne Brewery’s 4.747-acre tract at 9 Hill View Lane, in the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction. |
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| Forget Texas' “bigger is better” mantra. In a tough economy, even modest increases in the real estate market are cause for celebration, according to a new Texas home sales report. |
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| VIA Metropolitan Transit will offer free rides to people attending the Super One-Day Volunteer Income Tax Assistance event that will be from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday at the Convention Center downtown. |
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| Real estate professionals say that as long as large amounts of office space in San Antonio remain vacant, landlords will be forced to offer concessions similar to those offered to Vidacare. |
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| Comal County residents will be able to pay their taxes on the go this week. |
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| San Antonio's industrial real estate market remained flat through the fourth quarter of 2009, and the office market picked up slightly at the end of the year, according to reports by commercial real estate firm Grubb & Ellis Co. |
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| The Texas Historical Commission officially recognized the New Braunfels Smokehouse as a Texas Treasure on Tuesday. |
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| Zoning amendments unanimously approved last week by Boerne City Council members fall into six major topics ranging from easing restrictions on the size and location of day care facilities to increasing restrictions on hilltop developments and lengthening the terms for planning and zoning commissioners. |
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| San Antonio wasn't unscathed by the recession, and local business leaders are trying to position the city for the recovery. |
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| San Antonio's housing market ended 2009 on a high note, according to numbers released Monday by the San Antonio Board of Realtors, with 1,349 home sales in December, a 5 percent increase from the same month the previous year. But it wasn't quite enough to pull 2009 out of its sales slump. |
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| Names this year’s local legends are D’Ann Harper, owner of Coldwell Banker D’Ann Harper Realtors, the largest residential real estate company in San Antonio |
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| To donate $10 to the Red Cross, type the word “Haiti” to 90999. |
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| The number of foreclosure postings for February is down from January in Bexar County, but it doesn't necessarily signal the worse of the real estate downturn is nearing an end. |
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| Consultants for the City of New Braunfels unveiled their strategy Tuesday for the city’s airport. The consultants have been working to determine how the general aviation airport could best reach its full economic potential. |
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| Projected San Antonio-area net job gains in 2010 should erase the job losses of 2009 and might even add hundreds or thousands of new incomes, two economists said Tuesday during economic outlook events. |
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| The 12 percent projected increase would be a foot back on the ladder, but one placed there cautiously, according to the Greater San Antonio Builders Association's San Antonio Housing Forecast, held Monday morning on the Valero Energy Corp. campus. |
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| The San Antonio Board of Realtors is projecting an increase in the number of home sales this year, along with possibly some price appreciation. |
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| The San Antonio-based Mission Title LP and the foreclosure listing service Real Estate Foreclosures have signed a joint marketing agreement. |
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| In the year ended July 1, Texas added more people than any other state, and Wyoming had the highest growth rate in the nation. |
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| Job-creation announcements flew as if from a machine gun, positioning San Antonio toward a sharply upward recovery track. Investments poured in like the economy was overrun with optimism. |
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| A.M. Best cited USAA's “superior capitalization and strong operating results” for rating the San Antonio institution's financial strength as A++. |
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| Military construction accounted for the majority of commercial projects in San Antonio this year. But as construction winds down, new job opportunities will be available at the city's bases. |
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| Best of City Large Business is Coldwell Banker D'Ann Harper in New Braunfels |
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| the jobless rate fell from 6.7 to 6.3 percent in Comal County this past month, and from 6 to 5.3 percent in New Braunfels, according Eva Esquivel with Workforce Solutions Alamo. |
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| The comments, in an interview with the San Antonio Express-News, marked the first time that AT&T has publicly discussed a timetable for the San Antonio rollout of its upgraded 3G technology, called High Speed Packet Access 7.2. |
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| San Antonio is a hot spot for job hunters, according to the latest ranking from job search engine Juju.com. The Web site used November employment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and its own figures to compile the rankings of the top 50 metropolitan areas in the U.S. for job hunters. |
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| The first production jobs associated with the new Caterpillar diesel engine plant now under construction on the west end of Seguin could be filled just after the first of the year. |
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| The Alamo City performed well in employment, housing prices and production output, three of the five indicators Brookings used to track economic performance in the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas. |
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| While not the fastest in the Lone Star State — Verizon's Fios offers 50 Mbps download and 20 Mbps upload to folks in North Texas — the service is nearly twice as fast as any other provider in the San Antonio area. |
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| Real estate and consumer experts say loan modification is the kind of service that surfaces when times get tough and homeowners get desperate. |
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