The San Antonio Business Journal will host the 2016 Alamo Area Growth Summit. Join us as we discuss growth and success in the Mexican-American Capital.
\n\nTexas cities have been identified by researchers at the Center for Opportunity Urbanism as &lsquo\;America&rsquo\;s Next Boom Towns.&rsquo\; The Texas Business Journals will partner with the center to conduct and share new research on the growing economic vitality of Texas. The program will build on the center&rsquo\;s recent national study which identified the cities most likely to boom in the next decade\, analyzing the 51 largest MSAs in the country across 8 metrics indicative of past\, present and future vitality. All 4 Texas&rsquo\; major metro areas made the top ten and each enjoyed double digit growth from 2010-2014 - beating the national average of 8.1% San Antonio&rsquo\;s research has shown that:
\n\nKeynote Speakers:
\n\nHenry Cisneros\, \;Former Mayor\, Co-founder and Chairman of CityView
\n\nJoel Kotkin\, Executive Director\, The Center for Opportunity Urbanism
\n\nScott Beyer\, Author of bigcitysparkplug.com
\n\nPanelists
\n\nMayor Ivy Taylor \;- San Antonio
\n\nNelson Wolff- Bexar County Judge
\n\nRichard Perez \;- President &\; CEO of San Antonio Chamber of Commerce
\n\nJenna Saucedo-Hererra \;- San Antonio Economic Development Foundation
\n\nRogelio Saenz \;- Dean of College of Public Policy\, UTSA
\n\nModerators
\n\nTony Quesada\, Editor\, San Antonio Business Journal
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