Business View Civil Municipal - July 2023

138 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 7 community. We are centrally located between San Antonio and Eagle Ford Shale region down in Kennedy and Karns City, so a lot of the executives that come from other parts of the country to run these oil companies want to move to our community,” Joslin elaborates. Historical roots and current trends Like any dynamic modern city, history plays an integral role in both the evolution and current positioning of an area and Floresville is no exception. The community can trace its roots back to the early days of the Spanish settlers who, once discovering the merits of the area, began to establish both ranchos and missions dotted along the San Antonio River. Using this key waterway as an efficient route to ship supplies elsewhere, these early settlers and the missions left behind, have now become part of the historical fabric of this beautiful region of Texas. Fast forwarding to the recent past, Floresville has been able to profit from the close proximity to San Antonio and some of the leading gas and oil companies in the country to help grow its residential base to just shy of 8,000 inhabitants as of the last 2020 population census. Residential and Commercial Development It is this growth that the city is both capturing and capitalizing on, according to Joslin. The city has been working closely with key developers on both the residential and commercial side to help accommodate this growth and provide the very best living amenities for its current residents and all those that are choosing to call Floresville their new home. “We have a number of key housing developments in the works with specific developers and we do have a large number of residential developments that are coming into the area,” Joslin says. “Some of these key developers include DR Horton and we have a golf course community known as Riverbend DR Horton is the community developer on that one,” Monica Velizz, Assistant City Manager relays.