Excerpt from ‘Site Selection’ Magazine, September 2019 Edition, Article titled ‘Investment Profile: Medina County, TX’ by Mark Arend

DON’T FENCE ME IN

By Mark Arend

Companies in this part of San Antonio metro find the business climate and land where they can grow affordably without the big city delays.

EXCERPT: This is true more times than not: Locating a facility near a booming metro is as good if not better than locating it in the middle of that metro. Take Medina County, Texas, on the west side of San Antonio. Businesses there benefit from being on the I-35 Corridor just 150 miles north of the Mexico border on the side of San Antonio that still has abundant room for development. The county’s other main highway, US 90, running east-west, is being widened from four lanes to six. Medina County Judge Chris Schuchart, who takes an active interest in the county’s economic development prospects, explains the significance: “I joke with San Antonio lawyers that I could drive from [Medina County seat Hondo] to the Bexar County Courthouse [in the heart of San Antonio] faster than most of them could get there. There’s nothing between me and there except a highway that’s not crowded.” And available, affordable land compared to northern and eastern San Antonio suburbs, says Schuchart. “It’s relatively inexpensive – perhaps $5,000 to $10,000 an acre. With Laredo down I-35, we’re just two hours from the largest inland port in America, and San Antonio is just 20 minutes from here.”