Earlier this week I wrote that I believed it was wrong for the city to decrease funding for the Kyle Chamber of Commerce, whose only concern is the promotion of Kyle, while increasing funding to the Greater San Marcos Partnership, whose first, second, third, fourth and fifth concern is promoting the city that bears its name and only then perhaps throwing some small scraps around to Kyle and other neighbors.
Perhaps you might have read the story in today’s Austin American-Statesman (top of page B5) that says Amazon, the largest retailer in the history of the world without a single retail outlet, is locating a distribution warehouse in San Marcos that will create 350 jobs. And if you did read it, you then also noticed the Greater San Marcos Partnership received prominent mention in the story. The partnership boasted the Amazon deal translates into a $21.3 million shot in San Marcos’s economic arm over the life of the 15-year-deal.
Of course, all the planning and negotiating for these types of deals are done under the cover of the tightest secrecy imaginable, but one can’t help but wonder whether Kyle was ever even mentioned in any of these conversations.
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