Business View Civil and Municipal | Volume 2, Issue 10

45 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 2, ISSUE 10 C I BOLO, TEXAS receive by donating those green spaces. It helps keep everything open, offering places for our citizens to exercise and walk their dogs.” In three to five years, Reed would like to see a hotel equipped with a convention center open and ready for business. He adds, “We’d also like to attract more industrial and manufacturing businesses to increase primary jobs along with expanding our retail businesses. And we want to diversify our housing products to include different types of single-family homes.” For Morris, he is looking forward to seeing how the EDC’s recent land purchase of 16 acres develops. Not only could it serve as the location of a hotel, but it could also incentivize commercial and retail businesses to move to Cibolo utilizing that land. The EDC’s goal is to eventually create another industrial park along the I-10. Regardless of what progresses, Pollock maintains the importance of welcoming change, acknowledging, “As a city, we’re changing. We have new leadership for the first time in over a decade with Mr. Reed. He has a fresh perspective, and as a result we’re revamping our processes to ensure our goals come to fruition. We’re ensuring Cibolo remains the City of Choice for current and future residents.”