Commissioner Justin Rodriguez Secures $150,000 to support Westside Small Businesses  

Commissioner Justin Rodriguez secured $150,000 to launch a LiftFund Dream Makers Fund pilot program to support Westside businesses. These funds will provide affordable and safe small business loans to entrepreneurs who cannot qualify for capital through traditional sources, such as a bank. Principal payments from loans underwritten by this program will be reinvested back into the fund, creating a self-regenerating, long-term funding source available to entrepreneurs for years to come! For more information on LiftFund, visit https://www.liftfund.com/ 

Commissioners Court Authorizes Demolition and Sale of Former Jail Land to UTSA

Commissioners Court has authorized an agreement with the University of San Antonio (UTSA) to demolish the formerly private-owned Central Texas Detention Facility, and transform the property into an educational hub for business, cybersecurity, and technology education. This $5.7M land deal will aid in revitalizing the West Side of Downtown. The deal is expected to be closed by January of 2021.

The land sale is part of a major $70M investment that UTSA is making to the Downtown campus, including an expansion of the School of Business, the creation of the School of Data Science, and a new National Security Collaboration Center. UTSA expects these expansions to help double the university’s enrollment over the next 8 years, to 15,000 students. For more information on this project, click here.

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