March 2017 | Business View Magazine

130 131 W ith a population of about 70,000, the City of Cedar Park, Texas, is located about 16 miles north- west of Austin, the state’s capital. Cedar Park is an extremely vigorous and grow- ing municipality, as attested to by its Director of Economic Development, Phil Brewer, who takes some umbrage when people refer to Cedar Park as merely a bedroom community of its much larger neighbor to the south. On the contrary, Brewer stresses, and rather persuasively, that in order to become the type of full-service city that its elected officials envision, there needs to be a balanced growth between its residential and commercial aspects. He then goes on, in great detail, to outline the many new develop- ments and investments over the past several years that have put Cedar Park on its current, steep growth trajectory: “Since 2011, Cedar Park has added over Cedar Park, Texas Not just a bedroom community Cedar Park AT A GLANCE CEDAR PARK, TEXAS WHAT: A city of 70,000 WHERE: Central Texas WEBSITE: www.cedar parktexas.gov