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New Tundra pickup trucks and Sequoia SUVs are lined up in May 2024 to be loaded on trains outside the Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas Inc. plant on the South Side. The planned expansion of the Toyota plant here reflects wise investments from the city and county.<\/p>\n
Sam Owens\/San Antonio Express-News<\/p>\n
Michael Hernandez, a manager at Toyota\u2019s new rear axle plant in San Antonio, gives a demonstration on March 2. Toyota will be expanding its presence here, creating 2,000 additional jobs.<\/p>\n
Katina Zentz\/San Antonio Express-News<\/p>\n
Toyota Motor Corp. has chosen San Antonio for its $3.6 billion expansion,\u00a0which is expected to bring 2,000 jobs to the automaker\u2019s South Side plant. Shown is the rear axle plant, which will add 400 jobs to the campus and begin operations this year.<\/p>\n
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas<\/p>\n
The San Antonio City Council and Bexar County Commissioners Court made smart investments in our metro area with financial incentives that undoubtedly contributed to Toyota Motor Corp.\u2019s decision to massively expand its production portfolio on the South Side<\/a>.<\/p>\n Toyota recently confirmed it plans to make San Antonio the site of a $3.6 billion expansion that\u2019s expected to add 2,000 jobs at an already productive campus.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n The project will roughly double the size of Toyota\u2019s manufacturing complex, providing the means for it to move production of the Tacoma midsize pickup to San Antonio, where it used to be before it was shifted to Mexico a few years ago.<\/p>\n To land the expansion over unspecified competitors, the City Council approved $122 million in tax breaks and other financial incentives<\/a>, including a 10-year property tax abatement worth an estimated $88 million, while county commissioners approved $55.3 million in tax breaks<\/a>.<\/p>\n We\u2019re confident that the millions in tax benefits offered to Toyota will yield a positive return on investment for the city and county.<\/p>\n For starters, the new jobs, which are to be filled by the end of 2031, will pay an average wage of $32.46 an hour \u2014 roughly $67,500 a year based on a 40-hour workweek.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Sarah Carabias Rush, president and CEO of the regional economic development organization Greater:SATX, estimates the combined number of direct, indirect and induced jobs resulting from Toyota\u2019s expansion at 30,000.<\/p>\n Indirect jobs include those at Toyota suppliers, while induced jobs refer to those created in the community, such as at restaurants and retailers. Together, they will yield $8.45 billion in economic impacts,\u00a0Carabias Rush estimates.<\/p>\n Besides tax incentives, the city pledged $24.5 million to add entrances and make other road improvements at Toyota\u2019s campus, along with an $8.3 million grant to train 1,650 new employees and $750,000 to re-skill 150 current workers.<\/p>\n Kudos also to city-owned utilities CPS Energy and San Antonio Water System, assuming they follow through on their offered incentives.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n CPS has proposed $16.2 million in rate reductions, and SAWS is reported to be considering waiving $4.5 million in fees.<\/p>\n A big part of what makes this arrangement laudable is that it builds on and strengthens the existing ties between Toyota and this community that were forged at the turn of the century. With the coming expansion, Toyota\u2019s investment since it broke ground in 2003 on its initial production facilities in San Antonio will reach $8.3 billion.<\/p>\n Toyota\u2019s San Antonio campus is also notable for spurring the development of facilities, which employ thousands of workers, by parts suppliers to the automaker\u2019s production lines.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Toyota is nearing completion of a\u00a0$531 million rear-axle plant<\/a>, which involved more than $31 million in city and county tax breaks and grants. It will start production in November and add more than 400 jobs<\/a> to the company\u2019s site.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n In applauding the city and county\u2019s foresight in incentivizing\u00a0Toyota to grow its San Antonio footprint, we\u2019re compelled to note that similar dynamics support their actions to contribute toward a new downtown arena for the Spurs.<\/p>\n There are differences in the two endeavors. The city and county are providing significantly more for the arena \u2014 up to $800 million combined \u2014 than for Toyota\u2019s project.<\/p>\n But bear in mind that Toyota is much richer, with a market capitalization roughly 50 times the Spurs\u2019 value; the money going toward the arena is from sources other than residential property taxes; and the arena will be publicly owned with the Spurs paying rent to play in it.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Nevertheless, in the big picture, the public investments in both entities are investments in our community. While the arena is the centerpiece of a downtown sports and entertainment district that includes Spurs Sports & Entertainment\u2019s commitment to hundreds of millions in adjacent development, Toyota\u2019s campus has been a catalyst for positive growth on the South Side.<\/p>\n Both are valued corporate citizens that, as entities and through their people, make San Antonio and\u00a0Bexar County richer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Tundra pickup trucks and Sequoia SUVs are lined up in May 2024 to be loaded on trains…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":931666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,13122,12626,15980,7202,40658,3138,7203,280575,358,1103,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-931665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-america","tag-arena","tag-bexar-county-commissioners","tag-expansion","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-city-council","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sanantonio","tag-tax-breaks","tag-texas","tag-toyota","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/931666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n