thoroughfare from all the population explosion in the Hill Country. It really drives right through Helotes to Highway 1604 to get to San Antonio. So it is a desirable location,” he adds. Workforce development leverages partnerships with the University of Texas San Antonio, just four miles away, and San Antonio’s SA Works program. “We have a tremendous supply of workforce and educated workforce very nearby to tap into. We just haven’t really had an industry that needed an educated workforce, because we’re mostly serviceoriented, but definitely would love to bring in a business that would require that,” Whitehead explains. City Administrator Henry Hayes points to a business development type incubator program, “it’s not the traditional look and feel of an incubator, but there’s an opportunity in the space that we have over there 103 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 06, ISSUE 05 HELOTES, TX
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