Tag Archives: economic development
Could Austin be prime location for Amazon HQ?
To hear the Austin tech community talking on Thursday, it was a foregone conclusion that online retail giant Amazon will become Austin’s largest employer and have a major physical footprint here within the next decade. That prediction came about following…
Austin • By Chad Swiatecki • Sep 8, 2017
Houston plans to be strong advocate for District 1
District 1 Council Member-elect Ora Houston says that while her new office will be downtown at City Hall, she does not plan to become a stranger back in her Northeast Austin district. “One of the things I have found is…
Austin • By Mark Richardson • Jan 2, 2015
Policy could ban incentive recipients' tax protests
On Monday, City Council Member Kathie Tovo told the Austin Monitor that she has asked city staff to prepare language for a policy that would have the effect of making recipients of City of Austin economic development incentives agree not to…
Austin • By Michael Kanin • Oct 28, 2014
Economic Development Department changing perceptions, funding
Changes are coming to Austin’s Economic Development Department this year, with a new source of revenue and a plan to change the public’s perception of its mission. As the FY2015 budget cycle gets into full swing, the city is in…
Local Politics • By Elizabeth Pagano • Aug 11, 2014
Council members skeptical over incentive deal for AthenaHealth
Austin City Council members Thursday expressed no small amount of skepticism about an economic development incentives deal that would bring a new AthenaHealth Research and Development facility to the former Seaholm Power Plant. Concerns – mostly from Council Members Laura…
Local Politics • By Michael Kanin • Jan 24, 2014
Austin may be competing with Phoenix for new Apple facility
Phoenix and Austin could be in competition again, this time in a race to lure Apple to manufacture computers in a local facility with the possibility of hundreds of jobs and millions in economic development to either region. An…
