| Construction job growth hammers hard in San Antonio | Construction job growth hammers hard in San Antonio | https://www.recenter.tamu.edu/news/newstalk-texas/?Item=10726 | 2015-10-06T05:00:00Z |
​SAN ANTONIO - Pent-up demand and uncertainty in the Eagle
Ford Shale have pushed San Antonio to the top of the stack in terms of
statewide construction employment growth. According to a report from the Associated General
Contractors of America, San Antonio posted the largest increase in construction
employment in the year between August 2014 and August 2015 throughout the state of
Texas. Over the 12-month period, the San Antonio-New Braunfels area
posted a 10 percent increase in construction employment, putting the region at 26 of the country's 339 metro areas. In comparison, Dallas saw a 3 percent increase, the
Austin-Round Rock metro had a 0.2 percent jump, Fort Worth-Arlington dropped 8
percent and Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land fell 2 percent. Population and job growth in San Antonio will remain the
main drivers behind demand for increased development, and neither of those two
factors appear to be slowing their pace anytime soon.
"Aside from single-family and multifamily
residential, the biggest area of growth in San Antonio, in terms of new
construction, is educational," said Kirk Kistner, Bartlett Cocke General
Contractors' vice president of business development, adding that school
districts in and around the city are all planning significant construction development
projects. Altogether, the projects will account for nearly $4 billion of work
that has or will hit the market over the next two years." | San Antonio Business Journal
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