Austin-San Antonio Metropolitan Statistical Area (ASA-MSA)

奥斯汀的这张照片是由 乔治Miquilena. 原来的照片被剪短了, text added and then combined with a photo of San Antonio that was purchased for use by IRC.

 

国内生产总值

You undoubtedly have heard of the term “GDP”, meaning 国内生产总值. It’s a standard measure of a country’s output of goods and services, and provides a comparison of the health of a country usually in comparison to the prior year.

有点干, 我知道, but hang with me a moment till we can make it interesting; Think of GDP as our speedometer to good times.

都市生产总值

我们也可以测量一个城市的GDP. Let’s call it 都市生产总值 (GMP). This includes not only San Antonio and all cities in Bexar County, 还有整个Comal, 肯德尔, 威尔逊, Atascosa, 瓜达卢佩, 班德拉县和麦地那县. This comprises the entire San Antonio-New Braunfels Metropolitan Statistical Area or MSA.

Ten years ago, in 2012 San Antonio’s GMP was about $92.60亿年. A seemingly shockingly high number, but in 2021, ten years later, we sat at $144.40亿美元，增长了56%! Over 5% per year, even increasing through the pandemic year of 2020.

顺便说一下, gross product means good and services produced and this goes up in two basic ways: the people in that region become more efficient and productive, but the primary growth driver is the new people moving into the area. So, the increase in GMP is related to population growth, as well as creation of wealth.

奥斯汀的姐妹城市

Well, our sister city, Austin, just says,” Hold my beer!” In 2012 Austin-Georgetown-圣马科斯 MSA posted $100-billion GMP which then increased by 2021… wait for it… $194-Billion! Nearly doubling in size of output in just 10 years! 在全国范围内, 这使得奥斯汀从MSA的第32位上升到第22位, and ATX is the second fastest growing city in the country.

Austin has the highest employment growth in Texas at 11.3% since the pandemic, one of the highest rates in the U.S.

奥斯汀-圣安东尼奥走廊

现在让我们看看大局, 我指的是像DFW这样的超级plex, 两个MSA的组合, 实际上. 达拉斯和Ft. Worth are 32 miles apart, connected by Arlington, Irving and DFW Airport. 现在, 圣安东尼奥和奥斯汀相距75英里, 由新布朗费尔斯连接, 圣马科斯, 还有很多小城市.  As early as 1982 John Naisbett in his book Megatrends created the label “奥斯汀-圣安东尼奥走廊” for one of his significant Megatrends for the coming decade.

谷歌地图

然后，S之后.A. lost a competition with Austin for a major computer consortium, Mayor Henry Cisneros decided that pushing the Corridor concept would benefit San Antonio, with Austin using its techiness to develop new designs and San Antonio to become the manufacturing partner. It didn’t quite work out, but it was a noble try.

Austin-San Antonio Metropolitan Statistical Area

So, please allow me to introduce our new acronym: The ASA-MSA, or Austin-San Antonio Metropolitan Statistical Area, 或者centtex Mega-Plex, encompassing all 13 counties in both MSA’s into an integrated economic region. Just look at the traffic on IH-35 to see integration in its most graphic sense.

经济增长

现在的增长情况如何? 圣安东尼奥在2022年的就业增长了2%.9%, adding 45,800 new jobs to the MSA, while Austin added 71,000个工作岗位, up 5.8%. In 2012, 圣安东尼奥有895人,1000个工作岗位，现在只有1个,286,300人，而奥斯汀有835人,000个工作岗位, 现在大约有1个,306,125

A number of years ago county Judge Nelson Wolf and I discussed the possibility of the Florida Marlins relocating to San Antonio. One of his major points was that only if Austin joined in with San Antonio would we have the mass of population we needed to engage the TV and Radio media that is needed to make a Major League team work. 媒体驱动收入.

然后, about 6 years ago I asked Red McCombs about his possible support for a Triple A ball club when it first came up to put a new stadium in downtown San Antonio. Mr. McCombs forcefully said “no” to a Triple A club and said that San Antonio and Austin needed to join together to get a Major League Club.

While the ASA-MSA has bigger fish to fry than an MLB team, if we can’t come together geographically or socially for that endeavor, then how can we pull off something more significant?

如果ASA-MSA真的成立的话, we would have a combined GMP of $358-billion, putting us ahead of Phoenix but below Miami.

That’s the major leagues as far as cities go, but I am not sure that we will end up building a baseball-soccer-football complex between New Braunfels and 圣马科斯, 虽然.

更大的SATX和机会奥斯汀

Greater SATX recently agreed to partner with Opportunity Austin in pursuing legislation for economic development and job creation for our megaregion.

It’s the “first formalized step in an ever-growing partnership between our organizations and our respective regions” said Jenna Saucedo-Herrera, SATX总裁兼首席执行官.

As the Chinese saying goes, ‘A journey of a thousand miles begins with but the first step.’

现在，想象一个有两个姐妹的家庭. One is very attractive, smart, super-hip and energetic, but she is, well, irredeemably weird. 就是这样，这就是她的风格.  The other daughter is very sweet, with a traditional charm and beauty, and loves to cook. 家庭型的，每个人都喜欢她.

这两个姐妹, 一个家庭(IH-35走廊), be able to start a business and work together? 嗯.

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