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Top 11 Reasons Why 2011 is San Antonio, Texas' Year!

By Link LeGrand

Real Estate Broker/Owner with LeGrand Brokerage

March 26, 2011 09:05 AM

Commercial Real Estate San Antonio, Texas - Link's top 11 reasons why 2011 is San Antonio, Texas's year! From www.kwcommercialsa.com/blog

LINK'S TOP 11 REASONS WHY 2011 IS SAN ANTONIO'S YEAR

11. San Antonio"s Tourism, Commercial Real Estate Industry, Sports (NCAA Div I, II, and III, Professional), Affordable Housing ($150k median), Manufacturing (Catepillar, Toyota), Military (Military Town, USA), and countless other industries are all producing "Basic Employment". In my opinion, Basic Employment is the "golden key" to local economics. This is a large reason why our economy misssed most (a nice kick in the stomach feels better than the sword that most of our country received) of the rececession that recenty ended. Go to this link to see a 2001 Definition of "Basic Employment". http://www.realtor.org/ncommsrc.nsf/files/commercial%20real%20estate%20glossary.pdf/$file/commercial%20real%20estate%20glossary.pdf

10. San Antonio, Texas owns a stable housing market. See two attached links about our housing market. One is a local opinion of how "boring" our residential market is ("boring" aka "safe/stable/growing slowing/building wealth over time/just say no to get rich quick schemes cuz they don't last) http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/article/Housing-market-in-2010-mixed-964216.php and another national opinion of how relate to the rest of the country. http://blogs.forbes.com/francescalevy/2010/09/13/real-estate-investing-housing-reit-foreclosures-distresse/ (please make sure to click through the great article with the "remembering the alamo picture"...to the Forbe's national article showing where South Texas ranks nationally in places to invest in real estate)

9. San Antonio, Texas owns great city leadership. Read the following articles about two great SA leaders! (one international article and one local) http://en.expo2010.cn/a/20100526/000005.htm (INTERNATIONAL)http://kwcommercialsa.com/blog/?p=323 (THIS LOCAL WRITER SUPPORTS "FRIENDS THAT PAY FOR" FOOD, GOLF, TRAVEL, HOTEL ACCOMODATIONS, AND LONG WALKS ON THE BEACH WITH HIS WIFE)

8. SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS'S FLAGSHIP UNIVERSITY - The University of Texas at San Antonio hired the former head coach from a NCAA Football Champion (yea baby!), Way to knock one out of the park Lynn Hickey and Ricardo Romo! FYI-Don't challenge either Hickey or Romo to any sporting events/challenges. They may "look like" Clark Kent and Lois Lane but you have to remember that these two learned to be leaders on court and the track. I DON'T RECOMEND "CHALLENGING FORMER COLLEGE ATHLETES! THEY SEEM TO FIND A WAY TO WIN! http://utsa.edu/today/2009/03/coker.cfm

7. Our Flaship University is shooting out leaders! In Commercial Real Estate Alone, check out links to a few former UTSA Student Athletes. This athletic program led by Hickey and Coaches like Sherman Corbett and Jason Marshall
http://www.goutsa.com/sportselect
actually focuses on the "STUDENT" side of "Student Athlete". Nick Prater (former UTSA Baseball Star) http://www.4mrealty.com/our_team Mark Schedel (former UTSA Baseball Star) http://www.investmentrealty.com/aboutus.asp Keith Mcree (former UTSA Golf Star) http://www.naireocsanantonio.com/brokers.html and yours truly - Link LeGrand (former UTSA Baseball Player) www.kwcommecialsa.com

6. Catepillar Choose South Texas (Way to win one for South Texas Seguin!) 6 Great Articles/links. 1st ) http://catstockblog.com/2009/01/caterpillar-breaks-ground-on-seguin-texas-engine-plant/ 2nd ) http://www.woai.com/content/news/newslinks/story/Jobs-available-at-Seguin-plant-set-to-build/7j6fcS9Z90GSoCfm_VlWpQ.cspx 3rd) http://www.ksat.com/news/23822495/detail.html 4th ) http://seguindailyphoto.blogspot.com/2009/05/caterpillar-comes-to-seguin.html 5th )http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/stories/2008/12/15/daily35.html 6th )http://www.ci.seguin.tx.us/humanres/sejob.htm

5. Toyota Chose San Antonio, Texas in 2003 and Stays Committed even in tough times (both for their great country and for the US National Economy)! Look at two articles about Toyota. 2003 when it was announced that they were coming to San Antonio and a more recent article showing that they are still committed to San Antonio, TEXAS despite Japan's major disaster this week. San Antonio - Please pray for all of Japan and our sister city of Kumamoto. I would have to imagine that our Toyota factory needs to be prepared to "step it up" big time in 2011 to support this fine company. 2003 Article http://siteselection.com/ssinsider/bbdeal/bd030210.htm 2nd) San Antonio's Toyota plant not expecting any immediate impact on production. http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/blog/2011/03/san-antonios-toyota-plant-not.html

4. Brook Army Medical Center Expands San Antoino's World Wide Presence in Health Care - Read the following articles. Way to Go "Military City, USA" ! - 1) http://www.sammc.amedd.army.mil/brac.asp 2) http://www.sanantonio.gov/oma/ 3) http://www.sanantonio.gov/news/NewsReleases/nr2009bracprlaunch.asp?res=1192&ver=true 4) http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,159819,00.html 5) http://www.embracebrac.org/

3. Port of San Antonio! http://www.portsanantonio.us/

2. Commercial Real Estate in San Antonio, Texas enjoys great commercial real estates assets that worldwide investors are looking to purchase as we speak! http://kwcommercialsa.com/blog/?p=434

1. Go to the best selling book of all time. Read the 11th chapter of the first book. Consider what would have happened if they had continued to speak the same language (love). Read the rest of the book. Do what it says! Enjoy 2011 San Antonio!

2011 is our year! No regrets! No reserves!

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