San Antonio is the second-largest city in Texas and the fastest-growing. Experts are paying close attention to the city's growth spurts and how they affect its residents.
“You have a city that’s experiencing growth, but it’s not built for that," says Ian Caine, director of the Center for Urban and Regional Planning Research at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), “Historically, [the] city was isolated, small, and didn’t see a lot of growth." Currently, San Antonio has 66 new incoming residents per day, and is estimated to have 1 million newcomers over the course of the next quarter century, Curbed reports.
Like all other Texas cities, San Antonio has benefited from a statewide economic boom, which economist Ed Glaeser attributes to the state’s favorable combination of low regulation, good weather, and cheap housing ... “It’s the portrait of a city that’s both recentralizing and decentralizing,” says Caine. “It’s [misleading to say] that it’s all about the rebirth of downtown. That’s just half the story.”
